Fostering Entrepreneurship Education by Improving Assessment Rubrics for Entrepreneurship Competence

Abstract

This chapter describes a tool for assessing the development of learners' entrepreneurship competence and its construction process. Competence in entrepreneurship is promoted at all school levels, but there are very few tools for teachers to assess the level or development of students' entrepreneurship competence. It can also be very unclear to teachers what should be assessed and when to assess a student's entrepreneurship competence. The rubric-based tool allows teachers to assess the development of a learner's entrepreneurship competence in an easy and simple way. The rubric also makes it possible to develop a teacher's own skills, as it gives an idea of what is being assessed when it comes to entrepreneurship competence. The tool was developed in a participatory process with teachers, students, and researchers. Another special feature of the presented tool is its internationality and the common contribution of different cultures to the development of the assessment tool.