The purpose of this study was to identify competencies
which are perceived as important by Thai adapted physical
educators, to determine the differences that exist in the
way physical education professors and adapted physical
educators judge the level of each competency, and to
recommend a set of competencies for adapted physical
educators in Thailand.
The questionnaire, Competencies for an Adapted Physical
Educator in Thailand containing 59 competencies based on 6-
point Likert type scales, was used in this study. The fifty-nine
competencies were translated from the Competencies for
an Adapted Physical Education Specialist, modified by
Dempsey (1986) from the 1981 AAHPERD Guidelines for Adapted
Physical Education. The meaning equivalence of the
competencies was validated by using the Delphi method along
with the back translation technique. The computed
reliability coefficients of the questionnaire, using the
Hoyt-Stunkard's technique was .9577.
The study's population consisted of 31 College and
university professors who have taught adapted physical
education courses to college/university students and 40
adapted physical educators who have conducted physical
activities for people with disabilities in schools and
institutions for the disabled in Thailand.
Data collection was completed in an eight-week period.
Means, standard deviations, a t-test and the Bonferroni
Method of Multiple Comparisons were used to treat these
data.
The results showed that 1) the competencies were
perceived as extremely important by professors and adapted
physical educators in Thailand, 2) the perceptions of
professors and physical educators on the competency
statements individually and overall were similar since the
null hypotheses were not rejected, and 3) the relationship
of both groups on the importance of each competency and
competency category was high with a Spearman rank
correlation of .7842, and .8857 respectively. Based upon the
findings of this study, it was recommended that this set of
competencies should be used as guidelines for the
preparation of adapted physical educators in Thailand. / Graduation date: 1992
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/36746 |
| Date | 10 December 1991 |
| Creators | Suphawibul, Mayuree |
| Contributors | Dunn, John M. |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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