Standardizing non-cognitive skills self-assessment test associated with entrepreneurial intent and success among 11-12 year-old children in Ahvaz city

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1 PhD student of educational psychology, Shahid Chamran University

2 Professor of Education and Psychology Faculty, Shahid Chamran University

3 Assistant Professor of Education and Psychology Faculty, Shahid Chamran University

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Cognitive skills are important and necessary in one's success in life, but performing is not adequate in social life, and in order to succeed in labor and education markets, non-cognitive skills are also of paramount importance. This research, in terms of  purpose, is applied, and in terms of data collection is a descriptive-survey , and aims at standardizing the non-cognitive skills self-assessment test associated with entrepreneurial intention and success. 300 male sixth grade primary schools students of Ahvaz city were selected as the sample by a multistage random sampling method (ratio). Confirmatory factor analysis and Cronbach᾽s alpha were used to analyze the data. The results of indicates that non-cognitive skills self-assessment test associated with entrepreneurial intention and success is valid for evaluating non-cognitive skills of 12 year old students. . Moreover, the results of Cronbach᾽s alpha coefficient indicated that reliability of this test is good (between 0.56 to 0.8 for each of scales).

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