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The common thought that learning by experience is most effective when it comes to teaching entrepreneurship at university has been challenged in a new study.
An analysis of more than 500 graduates found no significant difference between business schools that offered traditional courses and those that emphasise a 'learning-by-doing' approach to entrepreneurship education.
The research challenges the ongoing trend across higher education institutes (HEIs) of focussing on experiential learning, and suggests that universities need to reconsider their approach if they are to increase entrepreneurship among their students.
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-entrepreneurial-textbooks.html
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday December 26 2016, @09:04PM
Isn't that lack of a difference proof in itself that something is wrong with the study?
Those seem like wildly different learning experiences, so there should be at least some differences in outcome.
Could be a lack of cause and effect between whats being tested and measured, or perhaps whats being measured has nothing to do with whats learned.
For example a standard SN automobile analogy is I can try to run a scientific study on oil pressure vs max output horsepower for a highly selected subpopulation, lets say all the engines have to be a very specific Toyota model arriving at a local dealership. All you're really going to measure is the noise level of various tolerances in the oil-stuff and the noise level of various engine computer sensor tolerances which probably won't correlate.
However, in an absolute sense it seems "obvious" that among a wide range of different sized engines the higher power engines will have slightly lower oil pressures because all things being equal the higher power engine should run hotter and hot oil is lower viscosity and thin watery oil will pour thru the engine faster resulting in lower pressure. I think that a reasonable hypothesis.
This is assuming they didn't totally F up the study. The SN electronic workbench analogy I'll provide is they decide to measure the voltage across a resistor and across a capacitor and then analyze the result, because they are idiots, furthermore the battery in the voltmeter is dead so they say "F it" and pencil whip the results as 0 each time. (Assuming 3 sig fig hobbyist cheap gear, no true but irrelevant stuff about resistor noise voltage per Hz or cap dielectric charge absorption, I suppose my car analogy needs a similar disclaimer)
Oh wait I got an even better one, its like giving one dude a shell account and telling him to figure out how to run "hello world" and giving another dude a copy of some 90s C++ textbook like Dietel and Dietel's pink phone book sized text but no computer access at all, and then having them turn in identical midterms, all that means is one bastard cheated and copied the answers of the other. Or you give one future "code hero" a bottle of vodka and the other a bottle of whiskey and act surprised at the identical midterm results. Or different brand condoms.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @09:32PM
One explanation could be that neither experience nor book learning has much effect on entrepreneurial success.