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Building TPACK in Preservice Teachers Through Explicit Course Design
Douglas M. Harvey & Ronald Caro


Tech Trends
DOI 10.1007/s11528-016-0120-x
AECT Association for Educational and Communication Technology

The study is aimed to investigate how pre-service programs may best support pre-service teachers in developing their TPACK knowledge and skills. Besides, it also tries to find out how these skills and knowledge contribute to the utilization of TPACK as a metric for assessing how these teachers improve their skills in teaching utilizing technology.
There are two major theories used in the study. As the subject of the study is pre-service teachers, the first theory is about the teacher preparation program or teacher training. In addressing how teacher training prepare pre-service teachers to utilize technology successfully, the author mostly quotes from Golas (2010) and Lambert and Gong. In addition, the authors use TPACK (Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge) framework (Mishra and Koehler, 2006) in developing and assessing these skills within an advanced technology integration course for preservice teachers.
In this study, a mixed method approached was used. The data were in the form of quantitative data, as the primary data, and qualitative data as the supplementing ones. The quantitative data was collected from pre and post TPAC survey while the qualitative data were gained from the content analysis of the collected lesson plan. Triangulation was then used to demonstrate the consistency between the primary and secondary data. In this study, two groups of students were given different treatments. The first group was trained with TPACK while the other was not.
The TPACK survey showed that there’s positive results in using the TPACK framework explicitly to develop technology integration skills in pre-service teachers. However, the lesson plan analysis did not reflect a significant use of the TPACK model in their lesson plan.

Based on the result of the study, it can be implied that TPACK training is needed for pre-service teachers to improve their knowledge and skills in integrating technology. For further research focusing on teacher development program, the research area to be highlighted can be how pre-service teaches can develop their lesson plan that reflects the use of technology based on TPACK framework.

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