Students’ Attitude and Learning of Entrepreneurship Education in Universities in Rivers State

Abstract

The descriptive study examined students’ attitude and learning of Entrepreneurship Education (EE) in Universities in Rivers State. A multi-disciplinary sample of 294 undergraduate students from Rivers State University and Ignatius Ajuru University of Education was selected for the study. Students’ Attitude on Entrepreneurship Education Questionnaire (SAEEQ) and Learning of Entrepreneurship Education Questionnaire in Universities (LEEQU) structured on a 5-point Likert rating scale was pilot tested and the reliability coefficient 0.75 and 0.83 coefficients established. Descriptive statistics was adopted for analysis of research questions while the null hypotheses were tested with z-statistics at 0.05 level of significance. The results show high extent of affective, behavioural and cognitive domains of attitude contribution to successful learning of entrepreneurship education. The findings therefore highlighted intuition, enthusiasm, increase sense of competence, and creativity, starting new start-ups as some key outcomes of entrepreneurship education favourable to entrepreneurial action. There was no significant difference in the mean ratings of male and female students on the extent affective, behavioural and cognitive components of attitude contributed to students’ learning of entrepreneurship in universities. It was recommended that students develop positive attitudinal orientations for pragmatic learning of entrepreneurship education in order to develop higher entrepreneurial competencies and creativity, and that functional entrepreneurship development centres be provided and equipped to complement students’ development of cognitive, affective and behavioural attitude favourable to enterprise development.