Assessment of Entrepreneurship Education Knowledge Acquisition, Change of Attitude to Entrepreneurship and Skills Acquisition in Entrepreneurship Among University Undergraduates in South-Western Nigeria

Abstract

This study was designed to evaluate the entrepreneurship education knowledge change of attitude to entrepreneurship and skills acquisition in entrepreneurship among university undergraduates in South-west Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Three states were randomly selected from Southwest, Nigeria from which one public and one private university each were randomly selected. The instruments used were Entrepreneurship Education Students Achievement Test and Undergraduate’s entrepreneurial and Management Competence Questionnaire which yielded reliability coefficient of 0.81 and 0.72 respectively. Paired and independent t-test was used to analyse the data collected at 0.05 level of significance. The pre and post test scores on undergraduates entrepreneurship education knowledge (tc1819) = 337.26 change of attitude to Entrepreneurship (tc1819 )= 240.80 and skills acquisition in Entrepreneurship (tc1819)= 123.05 indicated the positive impact of entrepreneurship education significant differences were also observed between the public and private undergraduates’ Entrepreneurship education knowledge (tc1819) = 5.46, change of attitude to Entrepreneurship (tc1819) = 4.96 and skills acquisition in Entrepreneurship (tc1819) = 4.20. Based on the findings of this study the following recommendations were made among which are: University lecturers should demonstrate a strong dedication to the teaching of entrepreneurship education general studies Government, non-governmental organizations and philanthropists should assist in providing sufficient resources for the teaching and learning of entrepreneurship education general studies course, the Vice Chancellors in Public Universities to intensify more efforts on effective implementation of entrepreneurship education general studies course.