Evidence of an

Entrepreneurial Mindset

Rebecca DeVasher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Helen L. Chen, Stanford University

Jennifer Turns & Lauren Thomas, University of Washington

Venture Well OPEN Conference

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Portland, Oregon

Goals for Today

• Exploratory conversations around evidence of

mindset

– How we assess and recognize an entrepreneurial

of mindset

– Ideas for next steps in mentorship of students in

an entrepreneurial education

Video protocol

• Students were asked broad questions in an

interview format.

– Describe your project.

– What was the best part of the project for you?

– What are you most proud of?

– What was the hardest or most frustrating part?

– How did your project compare to traditional

classroom experiences?

Seeing it from both sides

• All participants will watch a student video interview

• Break into groups

• Some participants will:

– Make an argument that the student IS

demonstrating evidence of an entrepreneurial mindset

– Make an argument that the student IS NOT

demonstrating evidence of an entrepreneurial mindset

Seeing the Cs

• All participants will watch a second student

video interview

• In your groups:

– Map to curiosity (red)

– Map to connections (blue)

– Map to creating value (yellow)

Seeing the Cs

–Where do you see evidence of your C?

–Where might you be able to infer

evidence?

–What additional information would be

helpful to explore more deeply?

Evidence of an

Entrepreneurial Mindset?

Evidence of engagement with an

Entrepreneurial Mindset?

Open Digital Badges(Hickey & Willis, 2016)

• Contain specific claims

• Contain evidence supporting those claims

• Contain links to additional evidence

• Circulate readily in social networks

• Be curated and annotated by the learner

• Accrue additional endorsements and validation

after they are issued

• Does not show

evidence of specific

competencies

• Earner “worked as”

or “demonstrated”

• Evidence in the form

of a video of a

student interview

Badges as Evidence of Engagement

http://remediatingassessment.blogspot.com/2016/01/so-maybe-badges-can-get-you-into.html

Jenny EngineerSenior, Chemical

Engineering

For more information

Rebecca DeVasher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

devasher@rose-hulman.edu

Helen L. Chen, Epicenter & Stanford University

hlchen@stanford.edu

Jennifer Turns & Lauren Thomas, Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education & University of Washington

jturns@uw.edu

laurendt@uw.edu