The Effectiveness of Entrepreneurship Education on Students' Career Path

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of entrepreneurship lesson on students’ career routing. The research method was experimental and pre-test and post-test with control group were used. The statistical population of the study included all second grade high school female students in the city of Nourabad. In order to do this research, one second grade of three second grade of the field of work and knowledge and one second grade of eighteen second grade theoretical fields was selected by using random sampling. The tool used in the research was a researcher-made entrepreneurship career routing questionnaire. The Face validity of the questionnaire was assessed by educational counseling experts and its reliability was determined using Cronbach's alpha (α = 0.8). The obtained data were analyzed by using covariance analysis. The results of the study showed that the mean of the variable of the career path of the students and the subscales of entrepreneurship knowledge, the attitude toward entrepreneurship as a career path and the choice of entrepreneurship as a career path were more than the control group but there is no meaningful difference between the two experimental and control groups in the mean subscale of routing knowledge (p<0/05). Therefore, it can be concluded that entrepreneurship education is effective on students’ career routing and entrepreneurship can be considered as a career path.