A comprehensive investigation of TPACK within pre-service teachers’ ICT profiles: Mind the gap!

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2017-7-24

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Tondeur, Jo
Scherer, Ronny
Siddiq, Fazilat
Baran, Evrim

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This study aims to identify profiles of pre-service teachers in order to explore their readiness to integrate technology in education. The assumption is that pre-service teacher characteristics such as technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK), go together with the influence of their teacher training. Specifically, this study examines whether pre-service teachers can be clustered on the basis of their TPACK, a typical set of ICT-related characteristics (e.g., general ICT attitudes, attitudes towards ICT in education, ease of use, ICT self-efficacy), and the perceived support at their training institution to adequately integrate ICT in education. Data were collected from a sample of 688 last-year pre-service teachers in 18 teacher training institutions in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium). Using correlational and latent profile analysis, the results suggest that: (1) two profiles can be distinguished, (2) TPACK and other individual ICT-related characteristics are positively correlated, and (3) pre-service teachers in a profile with strong TPACK, attitudes, and self-efficacy scores also report high scores on the support they perceive at their teacher training institution. Implications for the role of teacher training institutions are discussed with a specific focus on how to close the gap between the two identified profiles.

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Pedagogical content knowledge, Integration self-efficacy, Technology integration, Physıcal-education, Latent class, Beliefs, Number, Mathematics, Competences, Instrument

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/51634

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Australasian Journal of Educational Technology

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https://doi.org/10.14742/ajet.3504

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J. Tondeur, R. Scherer, F. Siddiq, and E. Baran, “A comprehensive investigation of TPACK within pre-service teachers’ ICT profiles: Mind the gap!,” Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/51634.