A CONSTRUCTION OF HOCKEY SKILLS TEST FOR KASETSART UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to construct hockey skills test and norms for Kasetsart Universitystudents. Subjects for finding quality of instruments were 30 students (15 men and 15 women) who wereselected by purposive random sampling from students registered in hockey at the second semester in2011. The other 180 students (113 men and 67 women) were samples for establishing norms.The research instrument ( field hockey skills test) which was established by the researcherconsisted of 4 items:-1) dribbling hockey, 2) passing-receiving hockey, 3) pushing hockey, and 4) hittinghockey. The content validity ( IOC) was approved by 7 experts. The reliability of the test (test-retestmethod) was tried out by 30 students during one week. The objectivity was judged by two raters. Datawere analyzed by using means, standard deviation, Pearson - Product Moment correlation coefficient,and raw score for norms.Results were found that:- 1) the content validity of dribbling hockey, passing and receivinghockey, pushing hockey - hitting hockey tests were 1.00, 0.96, 0.98 and 1.00 respectively; the reliabilityfor male students were 0.92, 0.90, 0.93, and 0.90; and for female students were 0.95, 0.92, 0.93, and0.91 respectively; and the objectivity for male students were 0.92, 0.90, 0.93, and 0.90; and for femalestudents were 0.95, 0.92, 0.93, and 0.91 respectively; and 2) norms of the field hockey skills test weredivided into 5 levels – excellent, good, moderate, low, and very low.It can be concluded that the field hockey skills test that was constructed by the researcher hadappropriateness to evaluate Kasetsart University students who taking the hockey class.