مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - DETERMINATION OF SELF-CONFIDENCE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE OF PRE-SERVICE HISTORY TEACHER

Abstract :

In this study, it is aimed to determine self-confidence of pre-service history teachers forTechnological Pedagogical Content Knowledge. For this purpose, the study was carried out with 134 (70female and 64 male ) students from each grade level, attending to History Education Departments of Ahmet Keleşoglu Education Faculty at Necmettin Erbakan University in academic years of 2012-2013. To collect data in this study, Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Self-Confidence Scale (TPCKSCS) which had been developed by Graham et al. whose was adapted by Timur and Tasar (2011) was used. At the end of the study, the pre-service history teachers’ self-confidence towards technological component of technological pedagogical content knowledge was found out high, statistically significant relationship in a positive way was found among all the sub-dimensions of the scale. It was also found out that there was no statistically meaningful difference among pre-service history teachers’ self-confidence towards technological component of technological pedagogical content knowledge depending on gender, but it was found statistically meaningful difference between Technological Pedagogical Knowledge and Technological Content Knowledge depending on class level which they attended.