Survey

The objective of the Central Baltic project Enterprising SELF - Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Finland, is to improve the attitudes in society towards enterprising and therefore improve regional competitiveness.

To measure this, a survey is going to be carried out twice during the project period. The first time at the beginning of the project (fall 2009) and the second time at the end of the project (May 2011).

Survey November 2009

Target group for the survey is school personnel and students age 12-19

Number of school personnel respondents: 576

Number of student respondents: 2102

The survey is evaluated on a scale from 1 to 5 where

1 is not at all,

2 Very little

3 Sometimes

4 Often

5 very much/always.

School personnel

I have experience from enterprising training, for example courses on enterprising in studiesor on up-dating training

74

26

0

20

40

60

80

100

Yes No

Perc

ent

Yes No

4325

4820

020406080

100

Per

cent

1 2 3 4 5

I let the students search for knowledge by themselves in my teaching

2 422

4428

02040

6080

100

Per

cent

1 2 3 4 5

My teaching is based on learning- by- doing methodology

5

38 32

10 15

0

20

40

60

80

100

Per

cent

1 2 3 4 5

I carry out some of the teaching outside the classroom and the school (for example study visits)

316

28

47

6

0

20

40

60

80

100

Percent

1 2 3 4 5

My colleagues are eager to develop enterprising teaching in my school

The term Enterprising

Some selected answers from the teachers survey:

” For me enterpising is to dare expose yourself to difficulties, to be brave enough to fail and to try again. Finding new ways….”

”Enterprising is: life attitude, ability to solve problems, creativity and innovations, to make dreams come true.. ”

” Enterprising is attitude. It´s about thinking in new ways and see posibilities which other people doesn´t see. It´s about how to do new things in new ways. A person who has an enterprising attitude could be a person how starts a new company. But all people who starts companies are not peoples with an enterprising attitude. An enterprising attitude could also be to develop an organisation like for example a company or a school. ”

Students

414

36 3115

0

20

40

60

80

100

Percent

1 2 3 4 5

I react on and discuss what the teachers say

4 10

33 37

16

0

20

40

60

80

100

Percent

1 2 3 4 5

I feel motivated in my schoolwork and have endurance to go through with it

3 521

35 37

0

20

40

60

80

100

Percent

1 2 3 4 5

I think that I'm the one responsible for my own learning

I try to find answers to assignments by myself instead of asking the teacher

3 10

34 36

16

0

20

40

60

80

100

Percent

1 2 3 4 5

22 24 3016

7

0 20 40

60 80

100

Percent

1 2 3 4 5

I take active interest in for example the student's council or likewise to be able to influence my school

5 920 24

42

0

2040

6080

100

Percent

1 2 3 4 5

I would like to have my own firm or business in the future

The term Enterprising

Some selected answers from the student survey:

”Often I can do it, but if I can't than I just try to do it. ….”

”Initiative, creative, wants to undertake some new projects ”

”Showing initiative in new projects. ”

”Enterprising is - when somebody does something! ”

”Enterprising is having your own firm or running your own business”

Comparison

School personnel and students

School personnel: Students:

720

4024

9

0

20

40

60

80

100

Perce

nt

1 2 3 4 5

I can tell my students what the term enterprising means

14 17

39

24

6

0

20

40

60

80

100

Percent

1 2 3 4 5

I can explain the term enterprising for someone who doesn't know what it is

School personnel: Students:

720

43

25

40

20

40

60

80

100

Perce

nt

1 2 3 4 5

I give the students the freedom to decide and plan the tasks in my teaching

13

31 3021

5

0

20

40

60

80

100

Precent

1 2 3 4 5

I like to decide over my working hours and how I want to solve the task I'm given at school

School personnel: Students:

1320

30 2413

0

20

40

60

80

100

Perce

nt1 2 3 4 5

The school informs/educates me on how I can run my own firm or business in the future

1424

29 26

7

0

20

40

60

80

100

Percent

1 2 3 4 5

I prepare the students to have their own business in the future

2 520

47

26

0

20

40

60

80

100

Perce

nt

1 2 3 4 5

I encourage the students to explore their own ideas during my lessons

School personnel: Students:

1021

40

227

0

20

40

60

80

100

Perce

nt1 2 3 4 5

I come up with my own ideas on the tasks that are assigned at school

Next surveyWill be presented at the seminar in

Finland September 2011