ABSTRACT

 Agricultural Science is one ofthe important subjects taught in Nigeria secondary schools which aims to develop knowledge, skills and attitude ofstudents towards agriculture. However, most students in Umuahia North Local Government Area who offer this subject are exposed to entrepreneurial endeavors or practice and life competency skills. Despite this, there is a poor trend of students’ achievement in Agricultural Science as evident in the West African Examination Council’s Senior Schools Certificate Examination ofyears 2010 to 2014. In this study effort was made to correlate entrepreneurial skills with students’ achievement and interest in Agricultural Science in Umuahia North Local Government Area. Four research questions and four null hypotheses was adopted for the study. Correlational design was adopted for the study. The sample size for the study consisted of 100 respondents made up of 56 males and 44 female seniorsecondary class two students drawn from public co-educational secondary schools in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State through multistage sampling techniques. Data was obtained using Agricultural Science Concept Achievement Test (ASCAT) and StudentsAgricultural Science Interest Rating Scale (SASIRS). The reliability of the instruments was done using Spilt-half method of Pearson Moment Correlation Coefficient (PMCC) and Cronbach Alpha (a) for ASCAT and SASIRS respectively and reliability coefficient indices of 0.75 and 0.89 were gotten for ASCAT and SASIRS respectively. Mean, standard deviation and simple percentages were used to answer the four research questions, while Pearson’s r, R2 (coefficient of determination) and multiple regression analysis were used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 levels of significance. The findings revealed that: though there was little variance between personal characteristics, practical skills and students’ academic achievement in Agricultural Science, the variance did not cause a significantly different between them. There is also no significant difference between gender and students’ academic achievement based on personal characteristics and practical skills though the a little variance did exist between gender and students’ academic achievement in Agricultural Science based on personal characteristics and practical skills. The r, and R2 gotten for hypothesis one to four (HOi to HO<) are .04 and .002, .04 and .002, .12 and 0.2, .10 and .01 respectively.