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. 2023 Dec 5;14:1279705. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1279705

Table 1.

Entrepreneurial knowledge and understanding, and assessment according to EntreCompEdu and its correspondence with EntreComp.

EntreCompEdu EntreComp
1. PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION 1. IDEAS AND OPPORTUNITIES
1.1 Knowing entrepreneurial education Continually developing my knowledge of entrepreneurial education, including the EntreComp framework. 1.1. Spotting opportunities Use your imagination and abilities to identify opportunities for creating value
  • Identify and seize opportunities to create value by exploring the social, cultural and economic landscape

  • Identify needs and challenges that need to be met

  • Establish new connections and bring together scattered elements of the landscape to create opportunities to create value

1.2 Valuing entrepreneurial education Understanding the relevance and potential of entrepreneurial education in my teaching and students’ learning. 1.2. Creativity Develop creative and purposeful ideas
  • Develop several ideas and opportunities to create value, including better solutions to existing and new challenges

  • Explore and experiment with innovative approaches

  • Combine knowledge and resources to achieve valuable effects

1.3 Understanding how learners develop entrepreneurial competences Identifying my students’ needs, interests and starting-points and using this knowledge to inform how I approach entrepreneurial education. 1.3. Vision Work towards your vision of the future
  • Imagine the future

  • Develop a vision to turn ideas into action

  • Visualize future scenarios to help guide effort and action

4. ASSESSMENT 3. INTO ACTION
4.1 Checking and reporting on progress Monitoring and reporting on what students know, understand and can do in their entrepreneurial learning. 3.2. Planning and management Prioritize, organize and follow up
  • Set long-, medium- and short-term goals

  • Define priorities and action plans

  • Adapt to unforeseen changes

4.2 Sharing feedback Ensuring that students know what and how they need to improve their entrepreneurial learning and are becoming increasingly involved and engaged in assessing their own progress. 3.3. Coping with uncertainty, ambiguity and risk Make decisions dealing with uncertainty, ambiguity and risk
  • Make decisions when the result of that decision is uncertain, when the information available is partial or ambiguous, or when there is a risk of unintended outcomes

  • Within the value-creating process, include structured ways of testing ideas and prototypes from the early stages, to reduce risks of failing

  • Handle fast-moving situations promptly and flexibly

4.3 Recognizing progress and achievement Providing opportunities for students to share the evidence of their entrepreneurial learning journey through two-way communication with a range of audiences in and beyond the school. 3.4. Working with others Team up, collaborate and network
  • Work together and co-operate with others to develop ideas and turn them into action

  • Network

  • Solve conflicts and face up to competition positively when necessary

3.5. Learning through experience Learn by doing
  • Use any initiative for value creation as a learning opportunity

  • Learn with others, including peers and mentors

  • Reflect and learn from both success and failure (your own and other people’s)

Developed by the authors, based on EntreComp (Bacigalupo et al., 2016; Grigg, 2020).