1. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOURAL ATTITUDES 1 OF STUDENTS AND THEIR COMPETENCIES IN MACHINE WOODWORKING IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NORTH-WEST, NIGERIA

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Abstract: The study established the relationship between entrepreneurial beahavioural attitudes and competence in machine woodworking among woodwork technology education students in colleges of education in North-West, Nigeria. Three research questions were raised and answered as well as three null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Correlational research design was adopted for the study. The targeted population for the study was 70 Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) III technical education students from five Colleges of Education offering woodwork technology education in North-West Nigeria. The entire population was used for the study. The instruments used for data collection includes: Entrepreneurial Beahavioural Attitude Inventory (EBAI) and Competence on Machine Woodworking Inventory (CMWI). The reliability of the instruments were established using Cronbach’s Alpha statistics and yielded overall reliability coefficient of 0.924 and 0.816 respectively. The data collected were analyzed using Kendall’s tau-b to answer all the research questions and Spearman’s rho to test all the hypotheses at .05 level of significance. Findings from the study revealed among others strong positive relationship between: entrepreneurial beahavioural attitudes and knowledge (.762), skills (.853) and attitudes (.798) towards machine woodworking among woodwork technology education students in colleges of education in NorthWest, Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study recommended among others that: conferences, workshops, seminars and other capacity building programmes should be organized by the Federal and State ministries of education in order to enhance the competence in machine woodworking lecturers which will positively reflect on the competence of the students and consequently improve their positive entrepreneurial beahavioural attitudes.