Investigating the Effectiveness of Integrated Entrepreneurship Education

Abstract

This study aims to examine the effect of integrated entrepreneurship education on the development of third-grade preservice science teachers' conceptual knowledge of entrepreneurship. This study includes 79 third-grade preservice science teachers studying at a public university in Turkey and is conducted with a one-group pretest-posttest experimental design. The experimental process consists of three parts. These parts are 1-SMEDO traditional entrepreneurship education, 2-entrepreneurship education in science, and 3-the exhibition of business ideas and business plans. The entrepreneurship test is used to measure the conceptual knowledge of preservice science teachers toward entrepreneurship. This test consists of 12 open-ended questions. The results of the study show that preservice teachers' conceptual prior knowledge of entrepreneurship is inadequate. In addition, it is determined that the conceptual knowledge of entrepreneurship of prescience teachers increases from the level that should be developed to a poorly acceptable level as a result of the experimental process.