Evaluation of Isfahan University's Entrepreneurship Center

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Mansoureh Moghtaderi ¹ , Hashem Golestani ²

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Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2006-12-22

Keywords: Keywords: University, Evaluation, entrepreneurship, Karad plan,

Abstract :

  Abstract   The appraisal of academic entrepreneurship center is the responsibility of entrepreneurship development plan administration at different universities, which operates under the center for academic research and assessment studies and national academic assessment organization. The present research aims at specifying the rate activities performed according to entrepreneurship development plan to achieve this end, a descriptive survey research design and research-developed questionnaire were employed. Since the target population was limited in under, the whole active members working in the entrepreneurship center-including both specialist and university student-were selected as the statistical sample. SPSS software was utilized for analyzing the obtained data at both descriptive and inferential statistical levels. The former used such techniques as frequency distribution, percentage and average values as well as standard of deviation, whereas the latter enlisted single-variable t-test, independent t-test, hoteling test, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and tuke4y test and kalmogorof Smirnoff. Special opinion was used for measuring the validity of the questionnaire and chronbach's alpha-coefficient was used for calculating its reliability which happened to be 0.97 . The findings revealed that the six fearures under investigation business and job planning training, discovering entrepreneurship contexts, setting up business and job plans training and referring students with a jobber business plan to supportive centers had avlues equal to 2.89,2.98,3,2.94,2.97 and 2.57 respectively all of which happened to be below the average level.