laleh salehi; feyzulah Monavarifard; yaser mohamadi
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Entrepreneurial self-efficacy increase entrepreneurship’s abilities to identify the opportunities of entrepreneurial, resources management and deal with existents challenges around the whole of entrepreneurial process. In other side, scholars argued that the curriculum components created different ...
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Entrepreneurial self-efficacy increase entrepreneurship’s abilities to identify the opportunities of entrepreneurial, resources management and deal with existents challenges around the whole of entrepreneurial process. In other side, scholars argued that the curriculum components created different opportunity for students to expanded different side of their entrepreneurial self-efficiency. Nonetheless, still we don’t have enough knowledge about the role of curriculum components as heart of university centers on students’ entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigating impact of curriculum components on students’ Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy in Alborz agricultural technical higher education centers. Statistical population of this research was consisted of 2004 Students; from that 178 students were selected as sample by using stratified random sampling. The main tool of this study was made questioner that its face and content validity confirmed by panel of experts and its construct validity confirmed by using explanatory factor analysis (KMO = 0.724; P= 0. 000). The questioner readability confirmed by ordinal theta. Data was analyzed by SPSS software. Findings of correlation analysis indicated a positive statistically significant relationship between teaching methods, education contents, Educators, evaluation and student entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy. Regulations and physical environment components did not play an important role in Students entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy. Results from ordinal regression analysis indicated that educational content, Educators and teaching methods -based on McFadden statistic- explained 27.4% of the variance of students’ entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy.
leila safa; nasrin Mangeli
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Given the importance of entrepreneurship in providing new job opportunities and help create sustainable jobs on the one hand, and considering the importance of entrepreneurial intention as the most important factor to predict entrepreneurial behaviors on the other hand, it seems inevitable to study factors ...
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Given the importance of entrepreneurship in providing new job opportunities and help create sustainable jobs on the one hand, and considering the importance of entrepreneurial intention as the most important factor to predict entrepreneurial behaviors on the other hand, it seems inevitable to study factors affecting entrepreneurial intention. Accordingly, the main purpose of this research was to study the effect of entrepreneurial intention on agricultural students’ entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The statistical population of the study contained of all M.Sc. students in agriculture faculty of Zanjan University in 2014- 2015 academic year (N=469). According to Bartlett et al. (2001) table, a sample size of 285 was selected using a stratified random sampling method (n=285). Data were collected using the standard questionnaires of De Noble et al. (1999) and McGee et al. (2009) in order to measure of entrepreneurial intention and Linan and Chen (2009) and Lorz (2011) for measuring entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts. Construct validity and composite reliability of the research instrument were tested by estimating the measurement model and they were satisfactory after making necessary corrections. The data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results indicated that entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurial self-efficacy of majority of students were at low and medium levels for both variables. Also, the results showed that entrepreneurial self-efficacy had a positive and significant effect on dependent variable of entrepreneurial intention explaining about 40 percent of its variances.
