ASSESSING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MIND-SET OF TECHNICAL COLLEGE STUDENTS FOR SUSTAINABLE SELF-EMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Abstract Technical education is bedrock for employment but the system is facing set back due to the lack of appropriate Entrepreneurial Mind-set model. The objective of the study is to develop and validate entrepreneurial mind-set conceptual model required by technical college students for sustainable self-employment in Nigeria. The procedure used in the sampling was random sampling; three out of the seven states listed in the study area were used. Therefore, the target population was 891paticipants instituting 650 teachers and 241 entrepreneurs. Consequently, 254 teachers and 110 entrepreneurs were selected constituting of 364 respondents. The research design for the study was survey research method using questionnaire approach in the data collection. The instrument was validated through both face and content validity by the experts’ judgment and all their observations and the corrections were considered and made appropriately. The result showed that all the items under important elements of entrepreneurial mind-set were found to be reliable, the reliability coefficient was 0.811. The method employed to analysed the data of this work was Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). The finding of the study shows a modified measurement model of the significant relationship between the responses of the teachers and the entrepreneurs on the eight significant elements of entrepreneurial mind-set needed. Therefore, going by the modified model it has been achieved that integration of entrepreneurial mindset competencies into technical college programs is appropriate. It emphasis that the implementation of this study by the stake holders, will assist in reducing the menace of unemployment among the technical college graduate. This study offers essential entrepreneurial mind-set model for integrating into technical college programs for sustainable employment in Nigeria.

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