Examining the Entrepreneurship Levels of Teacher Candidates

The purpose of this research is to determine the entrepreneurship levels of teacher candidates and to examine them according to various variables. The general survey model was used in the research. The population of the research consists of the teacher candidates who study at Akdeniz University, Faculty of Education and Sports Sciences throughout the 2020-2021 academic year. In order to determine the entrepreneurship level of teacher candidates, a thirty-eight item scale was used in the data collection process. For analyzing the data frequency, percentage, Mann Whitney-U test and Kruskal Wallis test were used. The Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of the scale obtained with this research is 0.93. As a result of this research, it has been concluded from the scores of the teacher candidates that: the level of entrepreneurship is high; the dimension of seeing opportunities from the entrepreneurship dimensions has the highest score; men have a higher tendency to take risks from entrepreneurial dimensions than women; women have higher levels of self-confidence, innovation, seeing opportunities and emotional intelligence than men; and in dimensions of self-confidence and being innovative, special education, primary school and physical education teacher candidates, have respectively higher tendencies than other departments.