Enhancing Students’ Entrepreneurial Skills Through Problem - Based Learning Method

This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of problem based learning (PBL) method in enhancing the entrepreneurial skills of senior high school students. A quasi-experimental method was used with two group designs, the control group taught with traditional method and the experimental group exposed in PBL. A total of 70 learners were involved in the study. And a rubric was used to measure the entrepreneurial skills, communication, comprehension, collaboration and information gathering skills before and after the implementation of the teaching methods. Results revealed that the traditional group's communication and comprehension skills were described as unsatisfactory in the pretest and both marginal level in the posttest, while their cooperation and information gathering skills were both marginal level in the pretest. But their cooperation skill remains marginal while information gathering improved to satisfactory level in the post test. The experimental group's entrepreneurial skills were described as marginal level except their cooperation skill which obtained a satisfactory level. Their skills have improved to good l and satisfactory level in the posttest. Also, the mean gained result obtained by the experimental group was significantly (p< 0.05) higher than the control group. Learners exposed to PBL has shown positive perception towards the method. Hence, PBL is effective in enhancing learners' entrepreneurial skills. It is recommended that an instructional intervention utilizing PBL in the classroom of entrepreneurship be implemented.