Physical Education Master’s Degree in Thailand

Abstract

This study was to determine the common competencies needed in physical education graduate curricula as perceived by physical education teachers and other physical educators in Thailand, to determine if differences existed among three groups of physical educators on the Importance of Content and Level of Learning of the selected competencies, and to determine the major clusters of the competencies for Importance of Content and Level of Learning. The instrument was validated through the Delphi technique. The computed reliability coefficients for each of two scales were found to be + .95 and + .94, respectively. The final questionnaire contained 56 competencies, with a five-point Likert-type scale to determine Importance of Content and a six-point scale to determine Level of Learning. Instruments were distributed to a random sample of 300 physical education teachers and other physical educators in Thailand. A one-way analysis of variance was applied for the hypothesis testing, Tukey’s test was used where appropriate. R-mode factor analysis was utilized to cluster competencies. The following major findings were noted: For the Importance of Content, 43 competencies were selected by all three groups as being of great importance and were considered to be essential to the physical education master’s degree curriculum : 13 were of moderate importance. For the Level of Learning. 17 competencies were rated