Effect of Gender on the Entrepreneurial Interest of Students in Colleges of Education in South West Nigeria

Mohammed Afolabi Idayat, Lawal Abdullahi Dutsinma

Abstract


The study was conducted to determine the effect of gender on the entrepreneurial interest of NCE Students in Colleges of Education in South West, Nigeria. The study employed descriptive survey design. The population of the study is 266 final year business education students in the three selected schools. The sample size of the study consists of the 266 final year business education students who were selected through stratified random sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire titled Gender Effect on the Entrepreneurial Interest of NCE Students (GEIMENIN), developed by the researchers. The validity of the questionnaire was examined by 3 experts and the reliability value of 0.82 was obtained. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions while correlation technique was used to analyze the null hypotheses. Findings from the study reveal that gender and entrepreneurial personal attitude has no significant relation gender and entrepreneurial subjective has no significant relationship and gender and entrepreneurial risk tendency has no statistically significant relationship. The study therefore recommends that gender should not be considered in motivating students to establish business.


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