A study for the evaluation of entrepreneurship level of fourth grade students in Recreation and Sports Management Department

Year 2016, , 45 - 49, 02.01.2016

Çiğdem Bacak , Oğuzhan Dalkıran

https://doi.org/10.24289/ijsser.279083

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to determine the differences between the entrepreneurship levels of the Sport Management and Recreation the fourth year students who are enrolled in the recreation programs of universities. The sample of this investigation consists 268 students studying in the recreation departments of Erciyes, Kocaeli, Sakarya, Muğla, Akdeniz and Pamukkale Universities during the spring semester of 2014-2015 academic year.  To determine the difference between entrepreneurship levels of sample group is used "Entrepreneurship Scale for the University Students' developed by Yilmaz and Sünbül '(2009) and to determine the demographic features of students "is used " Personal Information Form” created by the researcher. In the analysis of personal information form data is used frequency and percentage distribution. Non-parametric tests were applied because of the data were not realize normal distribution. To analysis of the differences between the total score level was used Mann-Whitney U test, to analysis of the differences between levels of substances in the frequency distribution Chi-square (Chi-square) test was used.  According to the findings in the study there is no significant difference between the level of entrepreneurship of the Department of Recreation and Sport Management students. In addition, there is no significant difference according to gender and age entrepreneurship level. There is a significant difference between entrepreneurship levels according to practices that Recreation and Sport Management Department students have made and the courses that Recreation and Sport Management Department students have taken. 

Keywords

College Students, Entrepreneurship level, Recreation, Sports Management

References

• Abdullaev, F. (2007). Entrepreneurship and Business Value of Student Characteristics: Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Turkey Comparison, Institute of Social Sciences, published PhD, Sakarya University, Sakarya
• Bozkurt, Ç. Ö., Alparslan, A.M., (2013). Finding Entrepreneurs Needed Features in entrepreneurship education and student feedback, Entrepreneurship and De-velopment Magazine, 8. 1-3
• Cansız E. (2007). Determining the entrepreneurial characteristics of university students, Suleyman Demirel University, Case Institute of Social Sciences, pub-lished M.Sc., Isparta.
• Doğaner, M., Altunoğlu, A. E., (2010). Nazilli Adnan Menderes University Faculty of Economics department of entrepreneurship orientation of students. Nazilli Adnan Menderes University Faculty of Economics, Journal of Organization and Management Sciences, 2, 2-3
• Kayalar, M. , Ömürbek, N. (2007) Examining the gender context of risk-taking en-trepreneurs property Factor candidate, Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences, 21, 185-200
• Kılıç, R., Keklik, B., (2012). A Study on Trends of University Students Entrepreneurship: The Case of Banda Department of Business Administration, Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Economics Journal, 2, 424-426
• Koçyiğit, E. (2013). Determination of the entrepreneurial characteristics of univer-sity students, Arel University, M.Sc., Istanbul,
• Yılmaz, E. , Sünbül, A.M. (2009). Towards the Development of Entrepreneurial Uni-versity Students Scale, Selcuk University Journal of the Institute of Social Sci-ences, 21, 195-203
• Yelkikalan,Y., Karadeniz, Y., Akatay, A., Köse, C., Yıldırım H. M., Özer., (2010), Scale Entrepreneurship in Turkey and the World Universities: A Comparative Ex-ample KMÜ Journal of Social and Economic Studies, 12, 51-59