ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN DELTA STATE POLYTECHNICS
Abstract
The study was conducted using survey design to determine the strategies as well as the effectiveness of the strategies used for teaching entrepreneurship education in Delta State Polytechnics. The study was guided by two research questions and one null hypothesis. The population of the study comprised 56
entrepreneurship education lecturers in the three Delta State Polytechnics (Ogwashi-Uku, Ozoro and Otefe-Oghara). The entire population was used for the study. A structured questionnaire of 40 items was used for data collection after being validated by three experts with internal consistency coefficient value
of 0.84. The data collected in respect of the research questions were analyzed using mean and standard deviation while data regarding the hypothesis were tested at 0.05 level of significance using t-test statistic. The study found that lecturers used all the teaching strategies listed in the questionnaire except
organizing competitions for students on entrepreneurship. Similarly, it was also revealed that all the identified strategies used by lecturers were very highly effective except questionnaire items 2,5,15 and 16 (see Table 2) which were rated as moderately effective. The study also showed that both the less and
more experienced lecturers did not differ significantly in their opinions on the effectiveness of strategies used for teaching entrepreneurship education in Delta State Polytechnics. Based on these findings, it was recommended among others that lecturers should continue to adopt the identified strategies in the
teaching of entrepreneurship education since almost all of the strategies were rated very highly effective.
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