ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the literature on education and training assessment with the aim of enriching the debate on assessment in the field of entrepreneurship education. It describes the models these fields of inquiry have developed to assess and evaluates both education and training activities and the theoretical points that emerge as crucial for assessing education and training programmes. The chapter also describes the elements that this body of research suggest as key elements to avoid mistakes while improving the methodological and theoretical rigour in assessment practice. Training design characteristics proposed by the model pertain to the capacity of the programme to enhance the potential of trainees to acquire and retain knowledge skills and attitudes which are applicable to other contexts. Education design can expose the student to situations which are similar to 'real life situations' in which they can make effective use of their newly acquired knowledge skills and attitudes.
