The Development of an Instrument to Assess Preservice Teacher's Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate the Pre-service Teacher-Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Survey (PT-TPACK) instrument. The PT-TPACK survey items were written to assess preservice teachers' perceptions and understanding of the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge construct originally proposed by Mishra and Koehler (2006). The participants for this study were preservice teachers ( n = 120) enrolled in a foundations of educational technology course at a mid-sized western university. Data analysis yielded six interpretable factors: pedagogical knowledge (PK), technological knowledge (TK), content knowledge (CK), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK), and technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK). Technological content knowledge (TCK) was the only dimension in the TPACK construct specified a priori that did not emerge. Results from this study suggest that the PT-TPACK survey holds promise as a useful evaluation tool for assessing preservice teachers' knowledge and use of technology to increase the effectiveness of their instructional efforts.

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“…In another, Lux et al (2011) developed a 45-item TPACK instrument using six of the original seven TPACK factors, with the exception being technological content knowledge, to examine 120 pre-service teachers in an undergraduate educational technology course in the US. In a study amongst 889 pre-service teachers in Singapore using a shortened version of ), Chai et al (2010 using regression analysis, found that technological knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and content knowledge were all significant predictors of pre-service teachers' TPACK, with pedagogical knowledge having the largest impact.…”

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“…Research indicates that effective integration of ICT in teaching and learning requires the teacher to understand how ICT weaves with pedagogy and content, better known as Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) (Mishra & Koehler, 2006;Schmidt, et. al., 2009;Archambault & Crippen, 2009;Lux, Bangert & Whittier, 2011).…”

“…This explains why the TPACK framework has been considered as a useful tool for understanding how pre-service teachers can integrate technology into teaching and learning (Baran, Chuang, & Thompson, 2011). Thus, using TPACK is one of the strategic ways to evaluate or assess pre-service teachers' skills in integrating the use of technology in teaching (Schmidt et al, 2009;Sahin, 2011;Lux, Bangert & Whittier, 2011). In line with this, several studies have acknowledged the need to develop a more reliable and valid instrument when measuring pre-service teachers' TPACK (Mishra & Koehler, 2006;Schmidt et.…”

“…However, there has been inconsistent findings in relation to the construct validity of the instrument. For instance, Schmidt et al (2009) and Lux, Bangert & Whittier (2011) identified a seven and six-factor model respectively. Other researchers found domains that had been interpreted as a combined domain.…”

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“…Since the emergence of the TPACK framework, researchers have explored its use within a wide range of content, levels of education, and contexts. Previous research ranges from theoretical studies exploring the importance of context when selecting technologies to empower learning (MacKinnon, 2017;Rosenberg & Koehler, 2015) to practical applications attempting to design valid and reliable tools to measure the level of TPACK in educators (Kadijevich, 2012;Lux, Bangert, & Whittier, 2011;Schmidt et al, 2009). Responding to these possibilities, the current project was designed to use the TPACK framework to guide the analysis of all research data.…”