Presenting an entrepreneurship curriculum model to promote and acquire students' entrepreneurial skills (Research sample: Secondary secondary schools in Alborz province)

The purpose of this study is to present an entrepreneurship curriculum model to promote and acquire entrepreneurial skills of students (case study of secondary schools in Alborz province). The present study was applied in terms of purpose and mixed (qualitative-quantitative) in terms of method. The population in the qualitative section, included experts in the field of entrepreneurship in Alborz province in the academic year 2016-2017 out of whom 14 people were selected via purposive sampling. The population of the quantitative section also included all secondary school teachers in the planning and entrepreneurship course of Alborz province in the same academic year (n= 266). Based on Morgan and Georgian’s table 154 people were selected by simple random sampling. The research tool was semi-structured interviews in the qualitative part and a researcher-made questionnaire based on the findings of the qualitative part in the quantitative part. MAXQDA18 was used to analyze the qualitative data and structural equation modeling with Smart Pls3 was used in the quantitative part. The results showed that there are 56 sub-themes and 5 main themes for the entrepreneurship curriculum. The results of exploratory factor analysis also showed that the first factor, ie creation of entrepreneurial knowledge explains 6.54 of the total variance, the second factor (entrepreneurial attitude) 7.65%, the third factor (entrepreneurial skills) 12.76% and the fourth factor (entrepreneurial ability) 14.65% explained the total variance of entrepreneurship.