Abstract
This study evaluated lecturers' competencies in teaching entrepreneurship education in tertiary institutions in Rivers State. Three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted evaluation research design. The Product Evaluation component of the CIPP Evaluation Model of Stufflebeam (1971) was used for this evaluation study. The population was 354 respondents comprising 154 male and 200 female lecturers in the Faculties of Education in the three public universities in Rivers State. The total enumeration sampling technique was adopted in adopting the entire 354 population as the sample of the study. A self-designed questionnaire containing 30 items was used for data collection. The instrument was validated by two experts in Measurement and Evaluation. The reliability of the instrument was established using test-retest method and a reliability coefficient of 0.83 was obtained. The mean and standard deviation were used in answering the research questions while the hypotheses were tested using z-test statistics at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that lecturers' entrepreneurial knowledge, skills and attitudes enhance their teaching of entrepreneurship education in tertiary institutions in Rivers State to a high extent.Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that the management of tertiary institution in Rivers State and other states of Nigeria should ensure only lectures with the pre-requisite entrepreneurial knowledge are allocatedentrepreneurship courses to teach students.