Needs Assessment in Life Skills Development of Primary School Students at Schools under Sakon Nakhon Primary Educational Service Area 3

Abstract

This research article aimed to study 1) The components of life skills of elementary school students; 2) The actual and expected conditions of their life skills; 3) The evaluation of needs assessment for their life skills development and; 4) The guidelines for their life skills development through four phases: 1. to study the components of their life skills; 2. to study the actual and supposed conditions of their life skills the sample group consisted of 326 school administrators and teachers; the power to classify current conditions was between 0.27-0.94; the confidence was 0.99; the power to classify the current conditions should be between 0.45-0.88, the confidence was 0.98; 3. to evaluate  the development for their life skills; and 4. to study the guidelines for developing their life skills

           The results showed as following

1. Life skills of elementary school students consisted of four components as follows: 1) building good relationships with others, 2) self-awareness and appreciation of oneself and others, 3) managing emotions and stress, and 4) critical thinking and creative problem solving.
2. For the actual condition, their overall life skills were at a moderate level ( x = 3.35); the condition that should be their life skills as a whole was at the highest level (x  = 4.65).
3. The needs needed to develop their life skills consisted of two aspects: 1) critical thinking decision and creative problem solving, with the mean at41; and 2) emotional and stress management, with the mean  at 0.40.
4. There were two aspects of life skills development guidelines for the primary school students: critical thinking decision, creative problem solving, as well as emotion and stress management.