Abstract
The study examined Practical Teaching Methods and the Acquisition of Entrepreneurial Skills among Business Education Students in Rivers State University It specifically investigated demonstration, and group project pedagogical strategies how they relate to students’ entrepreneurship skills acquisition. To achieve these, two research questions were raised and two null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted correlational design and a total of 111 instruments were distributed for data collection, while 107 were successfully retrieved and used for analyses; hence there was no sampling. The researchers’ designed questionnaire used for the study was titled “Practical Teaching Methods and the Acquisition of Entrepreneurial Skills among Business Education Students (PTMAES). Reliability of the instrument was established using split half method while Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMCC) statistical tool was used to compute the coefficient which yielded an index of 0.88. Correlation coefficients were used to answer the research questions while t-transformation statistics were used to test hypotheses for significance of r. Findings revealed high positive relationship between the adoption of demonstration and group project strategies Consequently, it was recommended that strategies such as demonstration and group project should be adopted to enable students to benefit maximally in their entrepreneurship skills acquisition.
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