SKILLS LABORATORY APPROACHES AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT IN UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN RWANDA A CASE OF NYAGATARE DISTRICT

The need for entrepreneurial skills impacting the quality of teaching and learning entrepreneurship all over the world. More emphasize have been made in teaching entrepreneurship but entrepreneurial outcome for graduate in upper secondary is still critically. The study aimed to investigate the effect of skills laboratory approaches on learning achievement in entrepreneurship in upper secondary school of Rwanda. Study utilized descriptive research. The study included a total population of 3661 individual consisting of 49 deputy head teachers in charge of studies, 102 entrepreneurship teachers and 3510 upper secondary students from upper secondary schools in Nyagatare district, the researcher determined the sample size of 361 respondents using Yamane formula. structuring questionnaire, interview and observation are employed as tools of data collection. The result indicated that 86% strongly agreed that skills laboratory boast learners engagement and confidence in activity presentation, 87.9% strongly agreed that project based assessment enable learners creation of project in student business clubs, 85.9% of respondents strongly agreed that Students business club helps learners to demonstrate entrepreneurship knowledge or skills learnt in real life, 92.2% strongly agreed that demonstration of skills lab improve pitching skills and creativity of project. Results revealed thatskills laboratory approach have positive significance to learners performance since the p value is less than 0.005 underpinning the positive relationship between skills laboratory and entrepreneurship learning achievement.The study recommends thatThe study recommends learners to become actively engaged in group discussion, presentation so that improve learners performance that result in interaction and improve their entrepreneurial skills and entrepreneurship achievement rather than memorizing for purpose of getting marks.entrepreneurship teachers to use skills laboratory approaches in teaching entrepreneurship lesson so as to help learners to solve community problem. School administration for participate in capacity building of entrepreneurship teacher by organizing community of practices and continuous professional development to boost the capacity of in service teachers on using skills laboratory approaches in teaching and learning entrepreneurship. curriculum designer and policy makers due to their role in education, to revise entrepreneurship curriculum into another image of teaching-learning activities, techniques, approaches, and assessment methods of entrepreneurship for practice purpose in secondary school of Rwanda.