Tool
Octoskills #OnlineSelfAssessment EERPF #EntEdOnline
URLÂ http://www.octoskills.com/
Launched
2013
Overview
The tool allows teachers, educators and institutional leaders to assess the influence of their educational initiatives on pupils' and students' entrepreneurial skills. This is scalable to all levels of education.
Themes
Conscientiousness, enterprising skills, entrepreneurial attitudes, entrepreneurial behaviour, entrepreneurial intentions, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, finance, innovative employee, leadership, locus of control, managing ambiguity, marshalling resources, motivation: extrinsic and intrinsic, network, persistence, planning, pro-activity, social capital, teamwork, creativity and social background.
Uses
The test offers educators and institutional leaders a way to assess the development of students' entrepreneurial skills to inform curriculum development. Although the site claims the that tool is aimed at all levels of education it mainly markets itself toward primary and secondary educators.
Question Format
Note: We reviewed the Higher Education Questions: The version of the tool we reviewed included a range of demographic questions which explored the respondent and their background. These included a range of open and closed questions. Where rating systems were used these were (generally) a three answer scale with a positive, negative and neutral response. The rest of the tool contained a range of questions, most used the same three answer scale. Six questions (entrepreneurial behaviour) were Yes/No formats and two questions used a seven point Likert scale 1 (Worthless/Low) - 7 (Worthwhile/High).
No. of Questions
34
Cost
OctoSkills is free to use but only allows for access to limited standard tests. OctoDash offers more customisability and more features. OctoDash is available for €10 per month for an individual licence. OctoDash is only compatible with iPads.
Results
On-page results are visualised in spider web diagrams showing before and after levels with some limited interpretation. Octoskills allows for immediate feedback loops on students’ development and comparisons across class and school level as well as internationally by type.