Evaluation and Lessons Learned from the Athletic Excellence Support Project at Wat Pomkaew Municipal School

Abstract

          The research objectives were to study guidance and to create lessons learned from the Athletic Excellence Support Project at Wat Pomkaew Municipal School. The estimations were about the contexts, inputs, processes, products, effects, effectiveness, sustainability, and learning transfer. The sample group consisted of 622 teachers, guardians, members of the Board of the Basic Education Commission, and students. The main informants on guidance and lessons learned were 24 teachers, guardians, members of the board of the Basic Education Commission, and students. The research tools were 3 sets of questionnaires. The information used for analysis was percentage, average, and standard deviation. The information about qualities was obtained by content analysis.

          The research results found that: 1) the evaluation results of the Athletic Excellence Support Project at Wat Pom Kaew Municipality School (Akkharapong Chanupatham) were generally high, 2) The project's success factors include: Administrators are committed to developing students' sports skills to enable them to organize sports activities. They have continuously sent athletes to compete at various levels, allowing students to showcase their abilities at the school, district, provincial, and national levels. They have used sports to enhance leadership, cultivate self-discipline, responsibility, endurance, and determination. They have also practiced teamwork, sportsmanship, respect for the rules, the ability to know how to win and lose, and applied sports skills to higher education. They are accelerating the establishment of sports clubs for excellence and collaborating with sports associations, local clubs, and sports organizations to expand learning opportunities and develop them into professional athletes in the future.