Problem Set #2 (due Sunday April 22 at noon)

 

Prepare a 1-2 page paper in outline form. The paper will design an evaluation of an ongoing entrepreneurship minor program at Iowa State University.  http://www.isupjcenter.org/education/minor/

 

The program has been in existence for ten years.  It includes two required classes that review various aspects of establishing and running a business plus three elective classes that are selected from a large list that span all departments in the university.  The program also includes voluntary participation in the entrepreneurship club and the possibility of internships at the ISU Research Park working with new start-ups.

 

Your mission is to establish a way to assess the effectiveness of the program. Prepare your evaluation in outline form.  The outline will have three parts:

# 1) Define the output measure(s) that you would use to assess the effectiveness of the program.  State the other variables you would collect and why.

# 2) Describe the experimental or quasi-experimental design you will use to assess the program. Include descriptions of the universe of potential participants, the treatment group, the comparison or control group, and the timing of the data collection.

# 3) State the hypotheses to be tested by your experimental design and describe how you will test the hypotheses using the information collected.

 

Please do not prepare more than two pages. There is no one right answer, so you can take chances.  Assume there is no budget constraint.