การพัฒนาตัวบ่งชี้ความสามารถพิเศษของนักกีฬามวยสากลชายระดับเยาวชน / วัชรกัญจน์ หอทอง = A development of indicators for talented youth male boxers / Watcharakan Hothong
The purposes of this study were (1) to develop the indicators of talented youth male boxers’ characteristics; (2) to examine the efficiency of the test; and (3) to construct the norm of U-17 Thailand national youth male boxers and the U-17 general youth male boxers by using test of indicators of talented boxers’ characteristics. The research procedure comprised 4 stages, as follow: (1) to study the document for evaluate the indicator and the characteristics of talented boxers; (2) to construct the research instrument; (3) to study the quality of research instrument and (4) to construct the norms of the test. The research discovered that the characteristic indicators of talented youth male boxers were conposed of 3 components as follow: (1) 11 indicators on physiological characteristics indication, (2) 3 indicators on physiological characteristics and (3) 5 indicators on boxing skills characteristics. The research tool on this study was the test consisting of 19 items for boxer’s testing with the content validity at 0.76 (IOC) for boxers’ testing and the construct validity statistically at 0.5 in all items. The reliability of the test was also significant at 0.5 in all items. There were 2 norms of references for the U-17 Thailand national male youth boxers and the U-17 general youth male boxers that the researcher constructed by making the level of performance criteria in 5 levels: very good, good, fair, low, and very low. The research concluded that the test in the field experiment which was used for evaluating the characteristics of talented youth male boxers in 3 components (the physiological characteristics, the psychological characteristics and boxing skills characteristics for boxer) was a high quality instrument on content validity, construct validity and reliability. Norms as well as the level of performance criteria were constructed. The test manual with details was also constructed to test and to select the talented youth male boxers.