REFERENCES 77 APPENDICES

Appendix A: Letter to the Respondents 86

Appendix B: Questionnaire 87

Appendix C: Reliability Test Result 92

Appendix D: Analysis 93

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IST OF TABLES

Table 1: Mean and Standard Deviation of respondents on skills undergraduate

Students acquire after completing an entrepreneurship education

course 58
Table 2: Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis of skills students

Acquire after an entrepreneurship education course and career

Intention 59

Table 3: Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis of skills students

Acquire after an entrepreneurship education course and self-

Productivity 60
Table 4: Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis of skills students

Acquire after an entrepreneurship education course and poverty

Alleviation 61
Table 5: Regression Analysis of the significant relationship between skills

Students acquire after an entrepreneurship education course and

Career intention 62
Table 6: Regression Analysis of the significant relationship between skills

Students acquire after an entrepreneurship education course and

Self-productivity 62
Table 7: Regression Analysis of the significant relationship between skills

Students acquire after an entrepreneurship education course and

Poverty alleviation 63


ABSTRACT

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he present study examined the relationship between entrepreneurship education programme of universities in Benue State and job creation, career intention, self-productivity and poverty alleviation of undergraduate students. Four research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. The correlational research design was adopted for the study. The sample for the study consisted of 225 final year undergraduate students drawn from three universities in Benue state. The instrument used for the study was a researcher developed instrument tagged Entrepreneurship Education and Job Creation Questionnaire (EEJCQ) which was validated by experts and used for data collection. Mean and standard deviation, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis and regression analysis were used to analyse the data collected. Major findings of the work showed that; (i) undergraduate students acquire entrepreneurship skills after completing an entrepreneurship education course. (ii) There was a high positive relationship between entrepreneurship skills and entrepreneurial career intention of students. (iii) There was a moderate positive relationship between entrepreneurship skills and self-productivity.(iv)There was a high positive relationship between entrepreneurship skills and poverty alleviation. (v) Entrepreneurship skills significantly influence students’ career intention, self-productivity and poverty alleviation. Based on these findings, conclusions were drawn and the implications were extensively discussed. Among the recommendations made were that universities should organize industrial tours, field trips, mentorship programmes, seminars, workshops and exchange programmes for students to engender entrepreneurship culture in them. Government and all stake holders in education industry should ensure that entrepreneurship education is adequately funded as no effective planning and implementation can take place in the absence of funds.