Students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) should be known by school administrators to raise the quality of students in entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy research in the past was dispersed. As far as this study is concerned, this is what it has to offer and a novel approach that could lead to future research work. Scale development for students in vocational school contexts, as well as a determination of item dimensionality to measure ESE construct, will be pursued by this study. Seven panelists were used for content and face validity, while 100 students in 23 vocational high schools (VHS) were administered questionnaires to measure construct validity using the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). Content Validity Index (CVI), which consists of both I-CVI and S-CVI, was used to assess the initial items' content validity. However, the face validity using Fleiss Kappa Index (FKI). The result for S-CVI is 0.917, FKI is 0.432, the I-CVI met the criteria for 32 items. Four sub-constructs of ESE were identified by the EFA with a total of 78.788 percent of the total variance explained (TVE) in this study. ESE's values can be accurately measured with this instrument, as the researchers discovered during the course of the investigation. Governments, school boards, and other academics may be interested in the study's findings. By doing so, all parties will be able to assess what steps should be taken to raise standards for students in entrepreneurship beyond COVID-19.
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