Designing and validating the entrepreneurship curriculum model in technical and vocational colleges

The general purpose of the research is to design and validate the entrepreneurship curriculum model for students of technical and vocational colleges and to validate it from the perspective of specialists and educators. Constituencies were selected. To evaluate entrepreneurship, in the first step, an entrepreneurship framework was developed, in the second step, based on that, tools for evaluating entrepreneurship components in the curriculum of technical and vocational colleges were developed. The reliability of the research instrument using internal consistency methods (Cronbach's alpha and combined reliability) is higher than 0.70. . In the statistical part, standard deviation, t-test, analysis of variance and confirmatory factor analysis were used. After analyzing the data by Smart-PLS3 and SPSS19 software, the findings showed that the entrepreneurship framework is valid. Entrepreneurship includes three general components: cognitive, skill and attitude. According to the research findings, the goals of entrepreneurship are familiarity with the concepts of knowledge, motivation, entrepreneurial skills. The content of those theoretical foundations of entrepreneurship; Learning and managing business and communication were the personality traits and skills of entrepreneurs. Active teaching approaches; Direct, practical and operational presentation methods are appropriate. Also in evaluation approaches; Methods of assessing knowledge, attitude, and skill are important. And finally, the entrepreneurial status is below average.