International Journal of Education and Management Studies

Mohammad Karimi ¹, Mohammad Hasan Rezaei ², Jahangir Mehr Afsha ³

Affiliations
1 Preschool Education, Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, IR
2 Department of Educational Sciences, Darab Branch, Islamic Azad University, Darab, IR
3 Department of Educational Sciences, Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, IR

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of preschool education on creativity, language skills and academic achievement of first-grade students, respectively. For this reason a sample of 80 subjects (40 men and 40 women without a history of pre-school preschool) Minab city male students were selected by multistage sampling. Torrance creativity tests, told-p test of language development and academic achievement tests were analyzed. The results of t-test for independent samples and Mann-Whitney test showed that students who had received pre-school education the three variables tested higher than students who did not receive this training achieved and this difference was statistically significant.

Keywords

Preschool Education, Creativity, Language Skills, Academic Achievement.

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Mohammad Hasan Rezaei ¹, Alireza Remezanpour ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Educational Sciences, Darab Branch, Islamic Azad University, Darab, IR

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate some family and environmental factors affecting entrepreneurial orientation of university students. To this end, a sample of 580 students (295 females and 285 males) were selected using multistage cluster sampling technique from seven branches of Islamic Azad University including Marvdasht, Shiraz, Darab, Fasa, Lamerd, Jahrom and Firoozabad branches. The instrument used to collect the data was Kordnaeej's (2007) Entrepreneurs' Personality Traits Questionnaire that was administered to the respondents after ensuring its reliability and validity. The result of the study showed that the mean scores of the respondents on entrepreneurial approaches were higher than average and at an optimal level for the whole questionnaire and its all components except for ambiguity tolerance. In addition, no significant difference was found in the entrepreneurial approaches used by the respondents in terms of their parents' jobs and education level. However, such differences were significant in terms of parents' income and entrepreneurial orientations. In other words, the groups with higher income levels and entrepreneur parents showed more entrepreneurial orientations. It was also found that there was no significant difference between the respondents with and without entrepreneur friends. Besides, the place of residence in city or village had no impact on the respondents' entrepreneurial orientations.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship among Students, Entrepreneurial Approaches, Parents and Entrepreneurship.

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