EPIC (HeInnovate) #OnlineSelfAssessment EERPF #EntEdOnline

Tool

EPIC (HeInnovate) #OnlineSelfAssessment EERPF #EntEdOnline

URL https://heinnovate.eu/en/user/login?destination=epic/dashboard

Launched

2019

Overview

The Entrepreneurial Potential and Innovation Competences (EPIC) course assessment tool is designed to help educators to measure the effectiveness of their entrepreneurship courses.

Themes

Entrepreneurial competences, entrepreneurial intentions and attitudes, entrepreneurial mindset and enterprising behaviours, entrepreneurial strategies and educational effects.

Uses

The tool is designed to help educators assess the skill and competence development of participants (pre and post) in entrepreneurship courses, modules, summer schools, bootcamps or training programmes. So that they are able to measure the effectiveness of their course.

Question Format

Note: 103 questions is the maximum number of questions which the tool can draw from but this can be controlled by the author and shorter test can easily be created. The tool use two question strategies: Likert scales 1 (Low/Completely Disagree/Worthless/Negative) - 10 (High/Completely Agree/Worthwhile/Positive) for the majority of questions with a small number of statement selection and rating questions used in a series of scenario exercises.

No. of Questions

103

Cost

Free to use and free to access results.

Results

Results are presented for the cohort, initially tutors are show a “before and after” for each competency and its component elements along with a delta which explore the difference in value between the figures. Tutors can also explore which entrepreneurial strategies students prefer as a score. From here bar chart and radar diagram visualisations of the data are also accessible along with an option to download the data in a .xls format.

Author / Attribution

This guide was produced by EERPF Matt Draycott Mokuba Mave Dr Kelly Smith Dr David Bozward Vic Curtis Dr Chinthaka Jay Rob Moon (EERPF https://www.enterprise.ac.uk/develop/eerpf/). If you would like to contact the author, please use this email address:- matthew.draycott@rau.ac.uk or the team via twitter @DraycottMC @MaveAchille @KellyJS @bozward @chinthaka_Jay @viccurtis @RMadcyclist.