Anyigor, Chisom Precious and Attamah, Chinyere Genevieve and Agbo, Anthony and Jude, Ijeoma (2025) Science Teachers Strategies for Developing Entrepreneurial Skills through Teaching and Learning of Science in Higher Institutions in Nigeria. International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology, 10 (7): 25jul863. pp. 1583-1587. ISSN 2456-2165
This research took a descriptive survey approach which investigated science teachers’ strategies for developing entrepreneurial skills through teaching and learning of sciences in higher institution in Nigeria. The research was conducted in Ebonyi state, Nigeria. The population consisted of all the science lecturers in the four (4) federal higher institutions in Ebonyi state. Stratified sampling method was used to select 15 science lecturers in various science departments making the total sample to be 60 science lecturers, while each school served as strata. Four (4) research questions and two hypotheses guided the study, while 20 itemed questionnaire structured by the researchers served as instrument for data collection. The instrument was subjected to validation and an internal consistency was calculated using Cronbach Alpha with value to be 0.84. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation while research hypotheses were treated using Z- test at p<0.05. Results indicated that most science teachers in the higher institutions in Ebonyi State had the knowledge and competency necessary for developing skills for entrepreneurship among students in higher institutions of learning with item mean to 3.66 as against 2.5 which serves as the cut off mark. The result also x-rayed that lack of science equipment and materials are the major factors militating against skills acquisitions and development among science students in the higher institutions of learning. The hypotheses value 2.30 and 2.14 which is greater than the critical value of >=1.96 showed that the null hypotheses of no significant influence of science teachers teaching strategies on science students skill acquisition and no significant influence of infrastructural facilities in skill acquisition were reject and alternate accepted. Based on the findings, recommendations were made, which included that modern facilities should be provided in the classrooms and laboratory to enhance hands-on learning amongst science students. This will help in skills acquisition and development thus fostering entrepreneurship.
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