Impact of entrepreneurship education on Students’ attitude towards business in Kar-Danesh Schools of Kermanshah City

Entrepreneurship education plays a role to develop entrepreneurial attitude. The purpose of this cause-correlational study was to investigate the impact of entrepreneurship education on students' attitude towards business in agricultural high schools of Kermanshah. The statistical population was 175 students from seven agricultural high schools. Based on Morgan sampling table, 118 students were selected by stratified random sampling method with proportional allocation. To gather data, two researcher-made questionnaires were used when their validity was confirmed by a panel of experts and their reliability was confirmed by a pre-test and ordinal coefficient theta (θ = 0.94 and 0.81) through R software. Data was analyzed by SPSS. The results showed entrepreneurship education included eight components: personality characteristics of students, coaches' characteristics, space and educational equipment, teaching methods, educational content, transformational leadership style, educational counseling, and occupational counseling, educational patterns of students in the family, which were based on literature and research background, have a positive and significant correlation with the attitude toward Business, and based on Kruskal Wallis statistic, there is no significant difference between students' attitudes toward different educational trends in agricultural high schools in Kermanshah. The result of logistic regression showed that the proposed model was able to differentiate between two groups of students with a positive or negative attitude towards agricultural business, and 82.8% of the students, and according to the Exp (β), the "transformational leadership style" has the highest predictive power in the logit model. Finally, practical suggestions were made to improve entrepreneurship education in agricultural high schools.