The RISE of a Clinical Approach to Skills Assessment

Entrepreneur development programs have many choices in terms of how they might elect to measure skills. However, any program that conceptualizes entrepreneurship as a set of skills must make this decision. In order to remain consistent with the TCOM framework and create an efficient and collaborative assessment process, we have created the Readiness Inventory for Successful Entrepreneurship (RISE).To achieve the aspirations of TCOM we have used the communimetric measurement theory. In this chapter we describe this theory and contrast it to traditional theories of measurement. We then describe the development, structure and uses of the RISE.