The effect of teaching the entrepreneurial skill on changing the attitude of male students of Farhangiān University (Ahvāz Campus) towards the internship course

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(PhD), Farhangiān University (Ahvāz Campus), Ahvāz, Iran

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Successful implementaion of the internship coursesneedshaving positive attitude towards this course. Hence,developing such attitude through training skills such as the entrepreneurial one to the students is a necessity which needs reflection. In this regard, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of training skills such as entrepreneurial skill on changing the attitude of Farhangiān University (Ahvāz Campus) male students towards the internship course. It was a semi-experimental study of pre/post-tests with control group design. The research population included all male students of Ahvāz Rasoole Akram Campus (N = 103) who were taking the internship course 3 in October of the 2019 Academic year. The research sample consisted of 40 students who were selected using simple random sampling method and they were assigned into two groups of experimental and control groups. After selecting the samples and randomly assigning them into two groups (experimental and control groups) and conducting the pre-test, the interventions in the experimental group were conducted through training the entrepreneurial skills during 13 sessions of 90 minutes, two sessions per week, in addition to teaching the internship topics. Internship course was taught to the experimental group. To collect the data, after studying the theoretical foundations and literature, a researcher-made questionnaire was prepared. To collect the data, a researcher-made questionnaire with 34 items in a five-point Likert scale (very high, high, medium, low, very low) was used. The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated using Chronbach Alpha (α = 0.86) and the data was investigated using covariance analysis. The results showed that training the entrepreneurial skill has been effective in changing the general attitude of students and the cognitive, behavioral and emotional subscales of attitude toward the internship course.

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Research in Teacher Education(RTE)
Volume 4, Issue 3
August 2021

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  • Receive Date: 18 December 2020
  • Revise Date: 17 July 2021
  • Accept Date: 28 August 2021

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