IDENTIFICATION OF PHYSICS-RELATED ENTREPRENURIAL SKILLS BY PHYSICS EDUCATION STUDENTS FROM SENIOR SCHOOL PHYSICS CURRICULUM IN NORTH-CENTRAL, NIGERIA

Abstract

Unemployment has contributed to the poor economic situation in Nigeria which has made the citizens to drown in poverty. One way minimise the level of unemployment is to embrace entrepreneurship. This study identified the entrepreneurial skills related to Physics topics from the senior secondary school curriculum. The study was descriptive research. Sample population comprised 704 undergraduate physics Education students from North-Central universities in Nigeria. Questionnaire was used as research instrument containing 20 Physics topics and the entrepreneurial skills. Purposive sampling was used to select universities that run Physics Education as a course while the selected universities were stratified into federal, state and private. Physics students were selected using convenience sampling technique. Two research questions were answered using percentage, mean and standard deviation and one research hypothesis was tested at .05 level of significance using t-test. The result revealed that Physics Education students were able to identify Physics related entrepreneurial skill. Also, there is no significant difference in the identification of Physics-related entrepreneurial skills based on gender. Some recommendations were made to this effect.