ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT - EVALUATION OF TEACHING METHODS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Addressing the challenges of education in the 21st century and the rising entrepreneurial education, our aim was to find out what methods of teaching related to entrepreneurship would be welcomed by the students of management and economy at Faculty of Economics of the University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice. The 136 respondents participated in the quantitative research in the period 2018-2019. In the research the following teaching methods were evaluated: "Tasks and essays", "Special projects", "Business games" "Case studies", "Counseling in psychology", "Role-playing", "Business simulators", "Lectures of experts". These teaching methods are commonly used in individual subjects at the Faculty of Economics of the University of South Bohemia. Students evaluated the effectiveness of teaching methods differently but chose as the most useful method for the development of business competencies "Lectures of experts", "Business simulators" and Special projects". The results of the method evaluation are not dependent on whether their close relatives do business or not. Thanks to these findings, the role of teachers can be identified and qualitatively shifted in the selection of the desired teaching method, which reflects the expectations of the students and thus also improves their ability to do business and entrepreneurial thinking.