بررسي عوامل موثر در توسعه روحيه و مهارتهاي كارآفريني در ميان دانشجويان سال آخر دانشكده كشاورزي دانشگاه تهران

Investigating Factors Affecting The Development OfEntrepreneurialCharacteristics Among 4th Year B.S.Students OfKaraj Agricultural College

The aim in this research work is to study the feactors affecting entrepreneurial spirit and skills among the senior students of the Agriculture College of Tehran University. A descriptive survey was undertaken to study all the 183 undergraduate students enrolled in the 4th year of 11 specialized disciplines in spring semester of 2005. The validity of the instrument was confirmed by a panel of faculty members from the related departments in the universities of Sharif, Amirkabir, and Tehran. The reliability of the instrument was confirmed based up on Cronbach alpha calculated separately as: 0.93 for for entrepreneurial spirit, and a = skills for 30 questionnaires filled out by the students from the faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran. Results obtained from Spearman sʹ correlation indicated that there was a significant and positive correlation between the mother sʹ educational level, monthly house hold sʹ income and the contents of the educational program of the university with the studentʹs entrepreneurial spirit. Likewise, there was a significant and positive relationship between the factors of: age, fatherʹs education level, monthly house holdʹs income, the application of entrepreneurial training development methods along with the studentʹs moraleat the university, and the students entrepreneurial skills.!t was proved that there was a meaningful mean difference between male and female students concerning entrepreneurial spirit and entrepreneurial skills among married and single students. The main results were as follows: multiple regression analysis ( stepwise method) revealed that the variables of: application of entrepreneurial training development methods at the university, monthly house- holdʹs income, age, entrepreneurial spirit and the fatherʹS educational level determined a variation of 26% of the student sʹ entrepreneurial skills. The results of the multiple regression analysis ( stepwise method) revealed that the variables: the university educational program content and the mothers educational level predicted a variation of 0.05% of the studentʹs entrepreneurial spirit. Findings of this research can effectively contribute to an improvement of entrepreneurship programs in higher education in the field of agriculture.