Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of the vocational life skills learning model in improving entrepreneurial skills in deaf students
Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of the vocational life skills learning model in improving entrepreneurial skills in deaf students

Summary/Abstract: This study provides empirical evidence on the effectiveness of a vocational life skills learning model in improving entrepreneurial skills among deaf secondary school students. Addressing persistent employment disparities faced by individuals with hearing impairments, this research adopts a quantitative approach to examine the contributions of cognitive, technical, and soft skills to entrepreneurial skill development. The study involved deaf students from four special secondary schools in Surakarta, Indonesia, and employed multiple regression analysis to test the proposed model. The findings reveal that cognitive, technical, and soft skills collectively have a significant positive effect on entrepreneurial skills, with soft skills emerging as the strongest predictor. These results indicate that entrepreneurial competence among deaf students is not solely driven by vocational mastery, but also by socio-emotional adaptability, communication ability, and self-regulation.

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