The impact of 7e learning model based social studies education on students' entrepreneurship level

Social studies course purposes to provide students with knowledge, skills and values that they can use in their daily lives. 7E learning, one of the learning models used in social studies education, is based on the constructivist education approach and purposes to provide students with skills that they can use in their daily lives. Entrepreneurship is one of the common skills that the social studies course and the 7E learning model purpose to provide students with. The main purpose of this study is to determine the impact of social studies education based on the 7E learning model on students' entrepreneurship levels. The participant group of the study, which was conducted with an embedded design from mixed research methods, consisted of 5th grade students studying in a public secondary school in Ağrı province of Turkey in the spring semester of the 2022-2023 academic year and the social studies teacher of these students. The data were collected using the Entrepreneurship Scale for Secondary School Students, semi-structured interview forms and unstructured observation. Independent samples t-test and covariance analysis were used to analyze the statistical data, and content analysis was used to analyze the qualitative data. In the study, it was concluded that social studies education based on the 7E learning model increased the level of entrepreneurship skill of students. In the study, it was also determined that both students and social studies teacher had the opinion that social studies education based on the 7E learning model provided students with a wide range of characteristics. Based on the results obtained in the study, recommendations for practice and research were developed.