Dataset on Teachers’ Entrepreneurial Orientation and Students’ Entrepreneurial Mindset in NAAC-Accredited HEIs of Uttar Pradesh, India
Description
This dataset contains 500 complete questionnaire responses collected from teachers working in NAAC-accredited higher education institutions in Uttar Pradesh, India. The Excel workbook comprises 57 coded variables: eight demographic and professional variables and 49 measurement items. The demographic variables cover gender, age group, highest educational qualification, institution type, NAAC accreditation grade, academic discipline, teaching experience and current designation. The measurement items represent seven constructs: Teachers’ Entrepreneurial Orientation (TEO, 8 items), Teachers’ Entrepreneurial Readiness (TER, 7 items), Innovative Teaching Practices (ITP, 7 items), Institutional Support for Entrepreneurship Education (ISE, 7 items), Student Entrepreneurial Mindset (SEM, 8 items), Entrepreneurial Learning Environment (ELE, 6 items) and Overall Perception (OP, 6 items). All construct items were measured using a five-point Likert scale ranging from 1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly Agree. The dataset contains no missing values or personally identifiable information. The accompanying questionnaire provides the study introduction, consent information, demographic response categories, construct definitions, item wording and response scale. The dataset can support research on entrepreneurship education, teacher readiness, innovative pedagogy, institutional support, entrepreneurial learning environments and the development of students’ entrepreneurial mindset.
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Steps to reproduce
To reproduce the dataset, identify teaching faculty working in NAAC-accredited higher education institutions in Uttar Pradesh, India, provide them with information about the study, obtain their voluntary informed consent and administer the structured questionnaire. The instrument contains eight demographic questions and 49 measurement items covering seven constructs. Code demographic responses according to the order of the options presented in the questionnaire and record measurement-item responses on a five-point Likert scale ranging from 1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly Agree. Enter each respondent as one row and each variable as one column, using the labels TEO1–TEO8, TER1–TER7, ITP1–ITP7, ISE1–ISE7, SEM1–SEM8, ELE1–ELE6 and OP1–OP6. Screen the responses for eligibility, completeness, duplicate records and invalid values, remove personally identifiable information, and retain the 500 complete responses in an Excel workbook containing 57 variables.