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An Assessment Of The Climate For Creativity In Secondary Schools In Awka South Local Government Area., Prof Ada Sam Omenyi, Ngozi N. Agu Phd, Christy O. Odimegwu
An Assessment Of The Climate For Creativity In Secondary Schools In Awka South Local Government Area., Prof Ada Sam Omenyi, Ngozi N. Agu Phd, Christy O. Odimegwu
Prof Ada Sam Omenyi
Creativity is the driver of innovations and advancement in any human society. Educational institutions have a major role to play in fostering creativity in their students by creating environment that is challenging and supportive for the teachers and the students. This work, using a survey design, identifies and assesses the level of climate for creativity in the secondary schools in Awka South Local Government of Anambra State. It used a sample of 329 secondary school teachers. A research question and a hypothesis guided the study. A 48-item questionnaire developed with insight from Ekvall’s (1996) dimensions of creativity climate measure was …
Development Of Scale For Assessing Students’ Entrepreneurship Readiness In Tertiary Insitutions: Initial Psychometric Evaluation, Prof Ada Sam Omenyi, Ngozi Agu, Christy Odimegwu
Development Of Scale For Assessing Students’ Entrepreneurship Readiness In Tertiary Insitutions: Initial Psychometric Evaluation, Prof Ada Sam Omenyi, Ngozi Agu, Christy Odimegwu
Prof Ada Sam Omenyi
Entrepreneurship education in Nigeria is perceived as a means of developing youth employment and poverty alleviation. The readiness of students to become entrepreneurs would be greatly influenced by adequacy and accuracy of the assessment of students’ entrepreneurship preparation. While many authors have acknowledged that entrepreneurship competencies cannot be effectively assessed by written examination, little has been done to develop a scale capable of doing this job. This work therefore described the development and initial evaluation of the psychometric properties of Students’ Entrepreneurship Readiness (SERS) using a sample of 450 undergraduates. The scale was found to possess sufficient reliability as shown …