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Cross-Currents: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal on Humanities & Social Sciences | Volume-11 | Issue-06
Assessment of the Effectiveness of Practical Chemistry Concepts on Secondary School Students’ Awareness and Interest of Entrepreneurship Skills in Kwara State, Nigeria
Lukman Adaramaja SHEU, Akanbi Ganiyu ADEDO
Published: May 3, 2025 |
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Pages: 118-124
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Abstract
Entrepreneurship skills are veritable tool that can be used to assist students in confronting numerous problems and create wealth towards becoming self-reliant. Inability of chemistry student in understanding the basic scientific principle might contributed to little or no knowledge on how chemistry concepts could be translated into different materials and products inform of Entrepreneurship skill acquisition this might be one of the reason that contributed to unemployment which have a negative consequence on Nigeria economy. This study assess the effectiveness of practical chemistry concepts on students’ achievement and entrepreneurship skills among secondary school in Kwara State. The three concepts used were saponification, cosmetology and colour pigmentation to determine the awareness, interest and learning achievement. The study is quasi-experimental and descriptive survey design type. The population consisted of (23, 984) SSII senior secondary chemistry students. The sample consist 110 of two intact classes. Two instruments were used for data collection chemistry student achievement test (CAT), Interest and awareness (IAQ) questionnaire. A pilot test was conducted for (20) non participants with the reliability co-efficient of (0.82) and (0.83) respectively. The research questions were answered using descriptive statistics while the hypothesis was tested using inferential statistics at 0.05. The results revealed that chemistry students have strong awareness, interest and have significant influenced on student achievement. From the result it was recommended that education stake holders must see how entrepreneurship should be part and core course and see how innovation could be introduce in the teaching of chemistry entrepreneurship skills acquisition.