THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GROUP MANAGEMENT COMPETENCY TRAINING PACKAGE FOR ELDERLY CLUB COMMITTEE

Abstract

This research was aimed 1. to create and test the quality of group management competency training package for elderly club committee 2. to try-out and evaluate the effectiveness of the group management competency training package for elderly club committee. It was a quasi-experimental research with one-group pretest-posttest design by creating a training set from concept synthesis, related theories and contents of the group management competency training package based on the studies of group management competencies requirement for the Elderly Club Committee. The population is the committee members of the Kamphaeng Phet Province Elderly Club. By experimenting and evaluating the effectiveness of using the training package, the sample group used in the experiment was purposively selected as 30 committee members of the Kamphaeng Phet Province Elderly Club who were willing to participate in the research project and able to participate in the training set throughout the specified period. The data collection tools used include a training package effectiveness evaluation form and training satisfaction assessment form. The statistical analysis techniques used included mean, standard deviation, independent t-test (Paired t-test) and content analysis.

For the results of the creation and evaluation of the training package, the training package created had the 4 units of content which were 1. organizing activities for elderly 2. budget sources and project writing & designing 3. performance monitoring and evaluation and 4. organization and leadership by using 2 days of training and it found that the overall result of appropriateness regarding the training package content was at a high level. When considering each aspect, it was found that the appropriateness was at a high level in every learning units and the Index of Item Objective Congruence (IOC) of the training package according to expert opinions was consistent in every issues. For the effectiveness of the training package from experiments, the pilot study showed that the score after the training was significantly higher than the score before the training at 0.01 and the satisfaction with the training was found to be overall at a high level. As for each aspect, there was a high and highest level of satisfaction.