Assessment of active teaching and learning methods applied in entrepreneurship education
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2017 |
Following the analysis of scholarly literature, the article discusses the active teaching and learning (innovative) methods. Seeking for high quality evaluation of their significance, the written questionnaire survey of teachers was conducted during the 22nd Olympiad of Economics and Business of Lithuanian School Learners organised by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania and Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences 23 April 2016. The method of direct assessment (weight estimation) was applied for assessment of significance of active teaching and learning methods. The research results revealed that such active teaching and learning methods as discussion, solving of practical business problems, presentation and consulting are most efficient, whereas method of evaporating conflict cloud, method of storyboard, method of logical branch are used least frequently. The data received after the evaluation of significance of active teaching and learning methods applying the method of direct assessment (weight estimation) that discussion is the most significant method out of all the 17 assessed methods.