The past twenty years have witnessed an enormous growth in the number of entrepreneurship courses at different educational levels. Nevertheless, there is still little uniformity in content and approach among courses and the research on entrepreneurship education remains sparse. So far, it has addressed topics such as course contents, pedagogical techniques, audience characteristics, teaching objectives, intended results, and so on. There is a need for much more research on methodologies for measuring entrepreneurship education effectiveness. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to reflect upon the development of a general conceptual framework for assessing entrepreneurship education.
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