The Community’s Needs Toward The Academic Service Arranged By The Institute of Physical Education, Chiang Mai Campus

Abstract

The research objective was to study the level of community’s needs toward the academic service arranged by the Institute of Physical Education, Chiang Mai campus. The population was 132,055 people in the Chiang Mai municipal area. Krejcie & Morgan tables on sampling were implemented to set the sample group of 384 people with error at .05. The simple random sampling is implemented. The research tool was the questionnaire with Content Validity at 1.00 and Reliability at 0.972. The statistics for data analysis was Frequency, Percentage, Mean and Standard Derivation. Research findings Most of there spondents were male aged 20-29 years old and were the students and the undergraduate. The preferred service time was mostly during 5.00 PM. – 8.00 PM. on Monday – Friday. Regarding the community’s needs toward the academic service arranged by the Institute of Physical Education, Chiang Mai campus in overall, it was found that there were 4 areas including the personnel area, the sport knowledge activity area, the sport games organizing area and the place and equipment area being at the high level. Especially, the sport games organizing area was required in the highest level ( = 4.08), the personnel area ( = 4.07), the place and equipment area ( = 3.91) and the sport knowledge activity area ( = 3.36) respectively. For other needs, firstly, the community needed to have Thai massage room service, the practicum students in the school in the area of Physical Education and Health Education continuously and the sport equipment borrowing in the evening. The suggestion of the community toward the academic service arranged by the Institute of Physical Education, Chiang Mai campus was to arrange enough places for the service users.