TITLE:
The Investigation and Analysis of Pre-Service Teachers TOWARD TPACK Competencies
AUTHORS:
Yuxi Wang, Xiaomei Gu, Sifan Liu
KEYWORDS:
Pre-Service Teachers, TPACK, Information Literacy
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.8 No.12,
December
28,
2020
ABSTRACT: Better
playing the role of TPACK in the teachers’ professional knowledge system calls
for the exploration of the relationships between every two levels of TPACK of
pre-service teachers. The research data were collected from 232 pre-service
teachers studying at Nanjing Normal University. Through the collection and
analysis of relevant literature, the purpose of this study was to reveal the
current situation of pre-service teacher TPACK and its existing problems, and
put forward corresponding countermeasures and suggestions. The results showed
that in the TPACK scale, comparatively high scores were measured on the PCK and
PK subscales while pre-service teachers attained relatively low scores on TPCK
subscale; a positive correlation was discovered between every two levels of
pre-service teachers’ TPACK; gender level differences showed up at CK level,
while no gender level differences existed at the other levels; in terms of the
variable of year level diversities were observed at TPCK and PCK level, while
no year level diversities occurred at other levels.