EFFECT OF NEW ENTREPRENEURIAL LEARNING APPROACHES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS BY COLLEGES OF EDUCATION STUDENTS
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This study examines the effect of new entrepreneurial learning approaches in the development of entrepreneurial skills by Colleges of Education students. Posttest equivalent groups’ research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consisted of 208 NCE II Business Education students and 64 NCE II Home economics students from Federal College of Education (Tech.), Omoku
during 2013/2014 academic session. Simple random sampling technique was used to divide the classes into two groups of 104 NCE II Business Education students and 32 NCE II Home economics students in each group respectively taking entrepreneurship courses. A checklist was used for data collection. Using Crombach coefficient alpha method formula, a reliability index of 0.86 was obtained for the instrument. Data collected for the study were analysed using independent t-test to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significant. The t-test was computed using statistical package for social science version 16.0. The results of the study show that there is no significant difference in the
development of marketing skills among students taught with collaborative learning approach and those taught with action learning. However, the result shows significant difference in the development of financial management skills between students taught with collaborative learning and those taught with action learning. The following recommendations were made among others: entrepreneurial educators in vocational teacher education programmes should give students opportunities to develop entrepreneurial skills through application of what they have learnt in collaborative or action learning approaches in real life situations. The credit units for entrepreneurship courses in vocational teacher
education programmes especially business education as its component, should be reviewed to three credit units to allow for practical sections.
Keywords: Entrepreneurship education and training, entrepreneurial skills, collaborative learning, and action learning
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