Abstract:

The aim of this study is to determine the pre-course and post-course entrepreneurship levels of students who study entrepreneurship in higher education institutions; to examine if there is a significant difference between these levels and to determine whether the entrepreneurship spirit has a significant difference according to demographic and various factors. Therefore, the data has been obtained from 123 students who are actively trained in a Vocational School of X University by questionnaire method. The obtained data has been analyzed by using the SPSS program, reliability test, Paired Sample T test, Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis H test. As a result, it was found that the entrepreneurship spirit level of the students after the entrepreneurship courses showed a statistically significant difference compared to their entrepreneurship spirit level before the course and that the entrepreneurship spirit of the students increased after training. In addition, the entrepreneurship training has also been found to be successful at a high level. The findings of the difference analysis highlight that male students had more entrepreneurial spirit than female students; the entrepreneurship spirit is more dominant in the students who express that they can take responsibility of managing an enterprise; the entrepreneurial spirit is higher in the students who want to work in the private sector in the future and the entrepreneurial spirit is more intense in the students who had knowledge about KOSGEB.

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