Exploring teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge as an indicator for the planning of in-service teacher training in chemistry education

Orel, Mojca (author), Peklaj, Cirila (author), Ferk Savec, Vesna (author)

This study examined how teachers teaching chemistry at different levels of education perceive their levels of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) and examined the relationship of TPACK with age, gender, teaching at different levels of education, time spent teaching chemistry, and frequency of information and communication technology (ICT) use. The study involved 261 teachers, 246 women and 15 men, from all over Slovenia, who have been teaching chemistry for an average of 18 years at different levels of education, with an average age of 45 years. The results showed that teachers teaching chemistry content perceive a high level of TPACK. There is a statistically significant correlation between age, time spent teaching chemistry, and frequency of ICT use with the perceived level of technological pedagogical content knowledge. Younger teachers, those with less professional experience and teachers who use ICT more frequently rated their TPACK higher. Based on the results of the survey, guidelines for planning the in-service teacher training that would support the development of TPACK of teachers teaching chemistry content were developed.

• Language: English
• Keywords: teacher demographic characteristics, information and communication technology, technological pedagogical content knowledge, chemistry teaching, in-service teacher training
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education; FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 451–461
• Numbering: Vol. 71, no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163509
• UDC: 37.011.3-051:54
• ISSN on article: 1580-3155
• DOI: 10.17344/acsi.2024.8783
• COBISS.SI-ID: 210465027
• Publication date in RUL: 08.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Acta chimica slovenica
• Shortened title: Acta chim. slov.
• Publisher: Slovensko kemijsko društvo, =Slovenian Chemical Society
• ISSN: 1580-3155
• COBISS.SI-ID: 21870085

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

V raziskavi smo preverjali, kako učitelji, ki poučujejo kemijske vsebine na različnih ravneh izobraževanja, zaznajo lastno raven tehnološko vsebinsko pedagoškega znanja ter preučili povezavo zaznane učiteljeve ravni tehnološko pedagoško vsebinskega znanja s starostjo, s spolom, s poučevanjem na različnih ravneh izobraževanja, s časom poučevanja kemijskih vsebin in s pogostostjo uporabe informacijsko-komunikacijske tehnologije. V raziskavi je sodelovalo 261 učiteljev od tega 246 žensk in 15 moških iz vse Slovenije, ki poučujejo kemijske vsebine v povprečju 18 let na različnih ravneh izobraževanja s povprečno starostjo 45 let. Rezultati so pokazali, da zaznajo učitelji, ki poučujejo kemijske vsebine, visoko raven tehnološko pedagoško vsebinskega znanja. Med starostjo, časom poučevanja kemijskih vsebin in pogostostjo uporabe informacijsko-komunikacijske tehnologije je statistično pomembna povezanost z zaznano ravnjo tehnološko pedagoško vsebinskega znanja. Na osnovi rezultatov raziskave so bile pripravljene smernice za načrtovanje strokovnega izobraževanja učiteljev, ki poučujejo kemijske vsebine.

• Keywords: informacijska in komunikacijska tehnologija, izpopolnjevanje učiteljev, tehnološko znanje, demografske značilnosti učiteljev, znanje, kemija, učitelji