Application of the Attitude Toward Enterprise (ATE) test on scondary school learners in South Africa

South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences

 
 
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Title Application of the Attitude Toward Enterprise (ATE) test on scondary school learners in South Africa
 
Creator van der Merwe, Stephan P Steenekamp, Andre G Athayde, Rosemary
 
Description The main aim of this research paper was to discuss the application of the Attitude Toward Enterprise (ATE) Test1 developed by Kingston University, London on secondary school learners in South Africa. A total of 1748 usable questionnaires were gathered from grade 10 learners in the Sedibeng District and utilised for statistical analysis. Five factors with eigen-values greater than one describing the entrepreneurial attitudes of young learners were extracted during exploratory factor analysis. Tests for reliability and construct correlation produced satisfactory results to recommend the Enterprise Attitude Questionnaire for further use on young learners in South Africa. A comparison of the mean differences between the constructs for demographic variables produced statistically significant differences in a number of instances, but no visible effects or practical significance to suggest that these differences have any effect in practice. Practical recommendations are offered for further employment of the Enterprise Attitude Questionnaire in entrepreneurship research on young learners.
 
Publisher AOSIS Publishing
 
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Date 2011-08-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajems.v14i3.18
 
Source South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences; Vol 14, No 3 (2011); 314-332 2222-3436 1015-8812
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2011 Stephan P van der Merwe, Andre G Steenekamp, Rosemary Athayde https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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