ANALYZING THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP LEVELS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN TERMS OF CERTAIN VARIABLES

The concept of entrepreneurship is defined as the process of planning, organizing, opportunities and assuming. It may be distinguished as ability to take risk independently to make utmost earnings in the market. It is a creative and innovative skill and adapting response to environment. The aim of this study is to determine the entrepreneurship levels of teacher candidates. Also, the relationships between entrepreneurship levels and certain variables (gender, department, internet usage frequency and whether they are wanted to be a teacher) were analyzed. For this purpose a survey was conducted on the students at the Selcuk University Faculty of Education during the Spring Term in 2010-2011 academic years. The entrepreneurship scale was used in the survey. Arithmetic mean, standard deviation, t test and One-Way Anova as analyzing statistics were carried out, and the significance level was accepted as .05. The male students had a higher entrepreneur than the female students at the teacher candidates, and also some variables in sub-aims were important for entrepreneur levels too at the end of the analyzing process. SPSS 15.0 package program is used for all of the statistical analyses in this research. Finally some recommendations were suggested by the researchers in light of the findings