Development of Kabaddi Skill Test For Students at Thailand National Sports University

Abstract

This research aimed to create and examine the quality of a Kabaddi skill test for students at Thailand National Sports University, the study involved establishing norms and developing a user manual for the tool. Data were collected from 12 students who were Thai national kabaddi players enrolled at National Sports University and 7 students who completed the Kabaddi course in 2022. Data for establishing the normative criteria were collected from 19 students who completed Kabaddi course in 2023. The data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation, highest score, lowest score, range, mode, median, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and T-score.

The results performed as follows 1) The Kabaddi skill test for students at National Sports University consisted of offensive skills including foot working, hand touching, toe touching, kicking, and crossing the bonus line to extra points. Defensive skills included ankle holding, leg holding, waist or body holding, and blocking; 2) The quality of the Kabaddi skill test demonstrated the content validity ranging from 0.60 to 1.00. The test-retest reliability, measured using Pearson’s correlation, ranged from 0.91 to 0.98 and from 0.91 to 0.98 for defensive skills. Inter-rater reliability showed the high consistency, with ranging from 0.91 to 0.97 and from  0.91 to 0.99 offensive skills; 3) The established norms for the Kabaddi skill assessment for students were as follows  for offensive skills, the raw scores range from 17 to 20, with T-score between 40 and 58; for defensive skills, raw scores range from 11 to 14, with     T-score between 25 and 52; and 4) The user manual for the Kabaddi skill assessment for students at Thailand National Sports University showed  the high quality, with an average rating of 4.72±0.26.