IMPACT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDIES ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ENUGU NORTHLGA DURING COVID-19 ERA

This study focused on impact of entrepreneurship studies on the academic performance of secondary school students in Enugu North Local government area during covid- 19 era. It was guided by three research questions and one hypothesis. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The population of the study was made up of 9, 057 senior secondary school students in the 9 public secondary schools in Enugu North LGA of Enugu State. Simple random sampling was also used to select 15 secondary school students from each of the secondary schools, making it a total of 105 students selected as sample. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire. It was validated by three experts and pilot study was tested using test-retest method. Alpha Cronbach was used to compute the data on this which yielded a coefficient value of 0.84, 0.79 and 0.86 with a general value of 0.83respectively. The data collected were analyzed using the mean and standard deviation while t-test was used to test the hypothesis at .05 level of significance. Findings show that the extent entrepreneurship is taught in secondary schools includes twice a week, three times a week and according to time table schedule. Findings also show that areas learnt by students in entrepreneurship education includes production, sewing, beadwork, cake making, crop production, and ICT. Findings as well revealed that knowledge of engagement into small scale business, use of ICT in online learning, success in crop production, production and marketing of clothing and bags were the impacts of entrepreneurship studies on the academic performance of secondary school students in Enugu North during the covid-9 era.

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