The Development of Executive Functions Assessment: Self-Regulation Skill of Middle School Students in Opportunity Expansion School.

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to develop and find out the effectiveness of the Executive Functions Assessment: Self-Regulation Skill of Middle School Students in Opportunity Expansion School; 2) to construction manual of the Executive Functions Assessment: Self-Regulation Skill of Middle School Students in Opportunity Expansion School. The sample for the test validation and norm construction consisted of 524 in 10 schools of junior high school in opportunity expansion school under Kalasin Primary Educational Service Area Office 3, academic year 2020. The sample were selected by Stratified Random sampling and Cluster Random Sampling. The instrument used for study was a text version of the 5-level scale with 45 items.

The finding were as follows:

1) The Executive Functions Assessment: Self-Regulation Skill of Middle School Students in Opportunity Expansion School consisted of the components of Executive Functions: Self-Regulation Skill into 3 components and 10 indicators obtained from the synthesis of the component based on Thai Health Promotion Foundation and RLG group.The measuring form of Executive Functions Assessment: Self-Regulation Skill that had content validity all items. An examination of the power to discriminate each item with a test statistic found that the questions were able to distinguish between high and low groups with statistical significance at the .05 level for all items. The reliability value was 0.954. The structural validity by Confirmatory Factor Analysis; It was found that the hypothesis model was consistent with the empirical data.

2) The manual for The Executive Functions Assessment: Self-Regulation Skill of Middle School Students in Opportunity Expansion School was suitable and total average score from 3 experts was 4.25, which was considered as a very reasonable overall guideline.