Challenges to Entrepreneurship Education in High School. Interaction between Formal and Informal Assessment

Abstract

This paper attempts to identify appropriate methods of teaching entrepreneurship in schools. The key to successful entrepreneurship education is finding the most effective way to manage learner skills and identifying the best match between student needs and teaching techniques. As entrepreneurship education includes all activities aimed at fostering entrepreneurial mindsets, attitudes, and skills, as well as aspects such as idea generation and innovation, experiential learning is an appropriate approach. For this purpose, a small experiment was conducted within the „Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship“ classes and an online survey among students, the results of which are presented in the paper. The target audience for this closed poll is teenagers who are around 15 to 16 years old. In this case, the survey was administered among students from Profiled High School for Romance Languages „G. S. Rakovski“ in Burgas, focusing on entrepreneurship with Spanish and entrepreneurship with French. The findings of the study revealed that there are many prevalent obstacles to effective entrepreneurial education (EE), concerning resource availability, standardized curriculum issues, and training opportunities for educators. Moreover, the findings of the research indicate both the impact of formal evaluation, its systematic approach to assessing students‘ knowledge and abilities, and informal evaluation approaches, as well as their alignment with the entrepreneurial mindset.