Abstract

The present study aimed to study the effect of business education on the attitudes of the secondary school male student towards job market and career-related self-concept. The populations of the study were all male secondary students in Isfahan in the year 2013/2015. The sample was a group of 44 students were placed in the experimental and 44 in the control group. In this study, the researcher-made questionnaire was used which involved 5 dimensions, i.e., utilizing the economic opportunities, stimulating entrepreneurial skills, increasing the risk in investment, presenting new products and services and running personal businesses. In this study, business skills were taught during eight 75-min sessions, depending on the students’ tiredness, curriculum and general conditions of the schools. The results of the independent samples T-test showed that  there is a significant difference between the student’s attitudes towards the job market in each of the experimental and control groups (p<0.05). Therefore, the experimental group got higher scores in each of the following dimensions: utilizing the economic opportunities and the market, stimulating entrepreneurial skills, increasing the risk in investment, presenting new products and services and running personal businesses.

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