Condition of Entrepreneurship Indexes Among Students of Regular Schools, Vocational Schools and Technical Schools.
Subject Areas : Educational management
Abstract :
The present research was conducted for the purpose of comparing the indexes of entrepreneurship among high school graduates in TehranCounty for the academic year 2007-8. Statistical population for the study, then, included all senior students studying in three types of schools, namely regular schools, technical schools and vocational schools. The sample population by use of stratified random sampling and based on Morgan Table, were counted 379 for regular schools, 354 for technical schools and 354 for vocational schools. To collect data required for the study, a questionnaire was designed by Samadaghaee by use of definitions presented in the works of Mc Celeland(1963), Jacobovitz and Wilder(1982), Noheria and Gulatib (1996), Lize and Bronkhous (1974), Etekinson and Roter (1964), All The questionnaire was basically measuring some indexes as tendency toward development, independence, creativity, risk taking and inner control. Validity of the questionnaire was checked by experts in the field and reliability for all indexes showed rate of over 85% through test of Alpha. By use of one way variance analysis, the data showed that there was a meaningful difference between the entrepreneurship competencies among the three groups in the study with a degree of p=0.01