Build the Students' Entrepreneurial Character Using Practice at Enterpreneurship Learning Method

Abstract

The preliminary study showel'the information that students of Economic Education who are more conceptual and do not have technical skills tend to have low entrepreneurial character. Theobjective of this study was lc improve the students' entrepreneurial characterby app lying practice at entrepreneurship learning method. ThiJ study took quasi experimental as the research method. The improvement of the students' entrepreneuria, character2vas tested using test of difference, pretest and posttest. The quasi experimental chosen was one grout pretest posttest design. The experimental group consisted of 20 students of Economic Education of ,STKII: PGRI Jombang, class of 2010. The practice at entrepreneurship was applied on the Entrepreneurshil course. The data were collected using questionnaire and observation of the entrepreneurial character an4 it was used the Likert scale as the measurement scale. The result of this study showed that there was ar aimprovement on the entrepreneurial character after applying the practice at entrepreneurship by holding as entrepreneurship fair for the public. It was shown quantitative/.y that there was an effective improvement or the entrepreneurship character after applying the practice at entrepreneurship learning method. It was prove( by the acceptance of working hypothesis that there was a significant difference entrepreneurial character beim and after applying the practice at entrepreneurship learning method. Students become more independent more confident, more creative, having more leadership skill, future oriented, more flexible and be able to seek business opportunities