The Effectiveness of teaching the Entrepreneurship Course on Entrepreneurial Personality Characteristics and the Entrepreneurial Intent of undergraduate Students of Sports Sciences

The purpose of this article was to investigate the effectiveness of entrepreneurship curriculum on entrepreneurial personality traits and entrepreneurial intention of the students of sports science faculty of Arak University of Sports Sciences. The research method was semi-experimental. Twenty-three subjects were selected as purposeful samples and assigned to experimental and control groups. Sixteen subjects were selected as matched with the experimental group in terms of age, gender, work experience and year of entry, and were assigned to the control group. The research tool was entrepreneurial intent standard questionnaire and entrepreneurial personality questionnaire. Before the beginning of class sessions, pre-test and after 15 sessions, the post-test was taken from both experimental and control groups. T-test, and dependent t-test were used. The results of the research showed that there was no significant difference between the entrepreneurial personality characteristics of the students of sports sciences before and after the presentation of the entrepreneurship curriculum, but there was a significant difference between entrepreneurial intention before and after the presentation of the curriculum, and the mean variables of entrepreneurial intention In the experimental group, it was significantly higher than the mean of this variable in the control group.It seems that the presentation of an entrepreneurship curriculum to develop knowledge, attitude and management skills can help to motivate and incline students to engage in entrepreneurial activities and increase entrepreneurial intent.