A measure of graduates’ basics components of entrepreneurial skills using confirmatory factor analysis

Abstract

One of the fundamental roles of Technical and Vocational Education (TVE) is to produce human capital with sound technical knowledge and skills that involve series of entrepreneurial activities. However, there has been out-cry of youths involving in all manner of criminality as a result of unemployment in many developing nations. The unemployment situation in developing nations has become household problem begging for an immediate solution. Every individual has shared in this ugly trend no matter the status or position one may be occupying as long as this remains unresolved. It is on this note, this study considered the entrepreneurial skills that promote job creation and employability for the graduates of Technical and Vocational Education (TVE). The design of the study was quantitative research which made use of questionnaire for data collection. The sample of the study consisted of randomly selected 209 respondents comprising of 13 lecturers and 196company employees. A research question was raised and Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS)software and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) through Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS) were used to analyse the quantitative data. The Confirmatory factor Analysis (CFA) was carried out through SPSS version22 and AMOS 22. Descriptive data was analysed to get the mean and Standard deviation. The results of the study indicated that the basics components of entrepreneurial skills (BCES) that promote job creation and employability for the graduates of TVE met the modification indices criteria.