A DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE SKILL SCALES FOR VOCATIONAL STUDENT IN CNACHOENGSAO PROVINCE

Abstract

These objectives of this research were to study the development and measurement of life skill scales for vocational students in Chachoengsao province, in terms of item analysis, accuracy and validity through all questions. The population, a total of 343, were the vocational students using knowledge transfer and subject experience from Bangpakong Industrial and Community Education College in the academic year 2017. The obtained data were analyzed by Life skill scales-based statistics and the discrimination and validity values were analyzed by the package software.
By research studying, it was found that the life skill scales for vocational students in Chachoengsao province characterized with 5 estimated value levels. The life skill scales consisted of 117 questions, classified into 10 key elements as 1) Decision Making (11 items) 2) Problem Solving (11 items) 3) Creative Thinking (11 items) 4) Critical Thinking (10 items) 5) Effective Communication (12 items) 6) Interpersonal Relationship (14 items) 7) Self-awareness (15 items) 8) Empathy (12 items) 9) Coping with Emotions (10 items) and 10) Coping with Stress (11 items). Every question had a content validity through all questions (S-CVI/Ave) with .93. The discrimination value ranged from 0.453 to 0.749. The validity value each element ranged from 0.912 to 0.953, and The validity through all questions was 0.989.