Questionnaires
Questionnaires
We execute three main sets of questioners.
A. Internet (Online Based survey)
The survey consists of a multi-topic questionnaire administered to the students through online learning platform in school during normal educational hours before COVID-19 pandemic or at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. We collect next information:
1. Subject specific knowledge tests. Spanish, English, Statistics, Personal Initiative (only endline), Negotiations (only endline).
2. Career intentions, preferences, beliefs, expectations, and attitudes. STEM and entrepreneurial intentions, preferences, beliefs, expectations, and attitudes.
3. Psychological characteristics. Personal Initiative, Negotiations, General Cognitions (General Self-Efficacy, Youth Self-Efficacy, Perceived Subsidiary Self-Efficacy Scale, Self-Regulatory Focus, Short Grit Scale), Entrepreneurial Cognitions (Business Self-Efficacy, Identifying Opportunities, Business Attitudes, Social Entrepreneurship Standards).
4. Behavior in (incentivized) games: Other-regarding preferences (dictator game), tendency to cooperate (Prisoners Dilemma), Perseverance (triangle game), preference for honesty, creativity (unscramble game).
5. Other background information. Socioeconomic level, language spoken, risk and time preferences, trust level, parents background, big-five personality traits of student, cognitive abilities.
Background information (5) collected only at the baseline.
B. First follow-up Phone-based Survey Zone 2, Summer (Phone Based).
The survey replicates by phone shorter version of the internet-based survey above. We collect next information:
1. Subject specific knowledge tests.
2. Career intentions, preferences, beliefs, expectations, and attitudes.
3. Psychological characteristics
C. (Second) Follow-up Phone-Based Survey, Winter, Zone 2, Highlands Educational Regime.
We execute multi-topic questionnaire by phone to capture the first life-outcomes of students who finished the school. We collect next information:
1. Life Outcome 1- Education. The set of questions that aims to measure the learning success, career/study intentions, propensity to plan and approach others with studying tasks, entrepreneurial intentions.
2. Life Outcome 2- Labor. The set of questions that aims to measure employment status and income, job searching behavior, time devoted for working/business, salary expectations and knowledge about the careers, self-initiated contribution to the family.
3. Personal Initiative/Negotiations related and other measures. The set of questions that aim to measure level of personal initiative, negotiation strategies, pregnancy rate, gender stereotypes, math/STEM self-efficacy, gender attitudes, parent-student communication effects.