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

Abstract

The main purpose of this study 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, Mugla, Akdeniz and Pamukkale Universities during the spring semester of 2014-2015 academic year. To determine the difference between entrepreneurship levels of sample group used Entrepreneurship Scale for the University Students' developed by Yilmaz and Sunbul '(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 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 no significant difference between the level of entrepreneurship of the Department of Recreation and Sport Management students. In addition, there no significant difference according to gender and age entrepreneurship level. There 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.