University Agricultural Student's Perception of the Classroom Learning Environment in Their Entrepreneurship Courses

Entrepreneurship education programs have been lauded for decades for their role in fostering students’ entrepreneurial attitudes and skills. However, there is a scarcity in the literature exploring learning environment in these programs. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to examine agricultural students’ perceptions of their classroom environment in entrepreneurship courses and to investigate relationships between these perceptions and students’ satisfaction with the courses and their perceptions of opportunity identification. Perception data were gathered by questionnaire from 105 agricultural students at two Iranian universities. Overall, respondents assessed the learning environment as average. Therefore, improvements are required across all seven dimensions of the learning environment. Correlation analysis revealed that students’ perceptions of their learning environment in entrepreneurship were significantly associated with their course satisfaction and opportunity identification perceptions. Especially, the results revealed that students’ satisfaction and opportunity identification perception were significantly greater in students who highly valued encouragement by education. The study discusses these findings and provides some recommendations on how to improve the learning environments and learning outcomes.