Assessing pre-service science teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) on kinematics, plant tissue and daily life material

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine pre-service science teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) on integrated science. Ten questions were implemented to 21 pre-service science teachers during school science course. Science topics involved was kinematics, plant tissue and daily life materials. During a semester, PSTs were asked to analyze the science contents demanded by Indonesian Curriculum. Moreover, the questions were given to measure PSTs’ seven constructs of TPACK. Data technological content knowledge (TCK) as the best construct posing by PSTs which is 95.24. The lowest construct is content knowledge (CK) which is 20.24. This finding implies the necessity of program promoting PSTs’ content in subject matter course specifically for kinematics. The score of pedagogical knowledge (PK) is 71.43. The score of PCK is 38.10. The score of TK, TPK and TPACK are 80.95, 61.90 and 80.95 respectively. Thus, it is essential to prepare the PSTs ability to connect science topics and the nature of science and use of various ways of representation or examples to deliver certain content. Moreover, it is believed that the PSTs low ability to comprehend the context is the most factor influencing their low PCK.