Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to study the entrepreneurial qualifications of high school students. The work group consists of a total of 649 students studying in the Anadolu high schools, sports high schools, professional high schools and private high schools located in the center of Adana in the 2019-2020 educational year. As a data collection tool, the demographic information form created by researchers (Ataseven (2016) used the "Entrepreneurial Skills Measurement Tool" adapted to English. The analysis of the measurement factor has been done. In the reliability analysis of the factor analysis, the Alpha value for the entire scale was found.93. The entrepreneurial skill scale is a five-like Likert-type scale consisting of 39 questions and 5 factors.  The study found significant differences in the under-dimensions of entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial intention according to gender variables. The entrepreneurial attitudes of students with an active sports degree, entrepreneurial skills, entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurial qualifications have been high compared to students who do not have an active sports degree. Another result of the study was that the size of entrepreneurial knowledge of students who took the entrepreneurial course was higher than those who did not take the course. In the case of being a entrepreneur in the family, there was a significant difference in all sub-dimensions except entrepreneurial education. As a result of this study, students studying in different kinds of high school in the secondary school have different entrepreneurial trends, whereas variables such as sporting actively in any sport industry, whether they are entrepreneurs in the family, and the state of taking entrepreneurship lessons have achieved that they affect the underfactors of entrepreneurship.

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