How You Teach Matters! An Exploratory Study on the Relationship between Teaching Models and Learning Outcomes in Entrepreneurship Education

Ilaria Cascavilla, Davide Hahn and Tommaso Minola
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Ilaria Cascavilla: Center for Young and Family Engineering and Enterprise, Department of Management, Information and Production, University of Bergamo, 24044 Bergamo, Italy
Davide Hahn: Center for Young and Family Engineering and Enterprise, Department of Management, Information and Production, University of Bergamo, 24044 Bergamo, Italy
Tommaso Minola: Center for Young and Family Engineering and Enterprise, Department of Management, Information and Production, University of Bergamo, 24044 Bergamo, Italy

Administrative Sciences, 2022, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-22

Abstract: Although entrepreneurship can be taught in different ways, entrepreneurship education impact studies generally fall short with regard to acknowledging the teaching models of the programs they assess. This severely limits our understanding of how entrepreneurship education actually works. To address this gap, this study describes and implements a procedure to identify the teaching models of entrepreneurship education courses and shows how different teaching models are associated with entrepreneurial learning outcomes. Our analysis is based on a sample of 376 Italian university students who responded to the Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students’ Survey (GUESSS) and attended entrepreneurship education courses. We describe and implement a coding procedure that allows us to classify the entrepreneurship courses attended by the respondents into five different teaching models (Supply, Supply–Demand, Demand, Demand–Competence and Competence). We find that courses based on the Supply–Demand, Demand and Demand–Competence Models are associated with better entrepreneurial learning outcomes than those based on the Supply Model. Our findings contribute to the theory and practice of entrepreneurship education program evaluation and design.

Keywords: entrepreneurship education; entrepreneurial learning outcomes; global university entrepreneurial spirit students’ survey (GUESSS); teaching models; university students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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