Payame Noor University Research in School and Virtual Learning 3060-6497 12 3 2025 01 20 Predicting the entrepreneurial skills of distance education students based on active learning with the mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy Predicting the entrepreneurial skills of distance education students based on active learning with the mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy 99 110 11681 10.30473/etl.2025.73653.4346 FA Taher Mahboobi Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran. Journal Article 2025 01 31 This study aimed to determine the relationship between active learning and entrepreneurial skills, with an emphasis on the mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy among students of Payam Noor University in Bukan city in the academic year 2020-2021. The research method is descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of this study is all students of Payam Noor University in Bukan city which is approximately 550 people. The sampling method is random-stratified. According to the Cochran formula, the number of statistical samples was 230 (138 women and 92 men), and after distributing the questionnaire, 225 (135 women and 90) completed questionnaires were collected. In order to collect data, Labneaux's active learning questionnaire (2004), Beach's standard questionnaire of entrepreneurial skills (2007), and De Nabel et al.'s entrepreneurial self-efficacy questionnaire (1999) were used, and the validity and reliability of the questionnaires were examined and confirmed. To analyze the data and investigate the research hypotheses, descriptive statistics methods such as mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics methods such as population normality and correlation coefficient and univariate and multivariate regression analysis and structural equations were used, and all these calculations were performed using SPSS software. The findings showed that the relationship between active learning and entrepreneurial self-efficacy with entrepreneurial skills and also active learning and entrepreneurial self-efficacy with entrepreneurial skills separately is significant. So we conclude that based on the predictor variables of active learning and entrepreneurial self-efficacy, we can predict changes in the criterion variable, namely entrepreneurial skills. This study aimed to determine the relationship between active learning and entrepreneurial skills, with an emphasis on the mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy among students of Payam Noor University in Bukan city in the academic year 2020-2021. The research method is descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of this study is all students of Payam Noor University in Bukan city which is approximately 550 people. The sampling method is random-stratified. According to the Cochran formula, the number of statistical samples was 230 (138 women and 92 men), and after distributing the questionnaire, 225 (135 women and 90) completed questionnaires were collected. In order to collect data, Labneaux's active learning questionnaire (2004), Beach's standard questionnaire of entrepreneurial skills (2007), and De Nabel et al.'s entrepreneurial self-efficacy questionnaire (1999) were used, and the validity and reliability of the questionnaires were examined and confirmed. To analyze the data and investigate the research hypotheses, descriptive statistics methods such as mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics methods such as population normality and correlation coefficient and univariate and multivariate regression analysis and structural equations were used, and all these calculations were performed using SPSS software. The findings showed that the relationship between active learning and entrepreneurial self-efficacy with entrepreneurial skills and also active learning and entrepreneurial self-efficacy with entrepreneurial skills separately is significant. So we conclude that based on the predictor variables of active learning and entrepreneurial self-efficacy, we can predict changes in the criterion variable, namely entrepreneurial skills. https://etl.journals.pnu.ac.ir/article_11681_a4bf00f2bd93f566fe434aedd5a8954b.pdf