Examining the Correlation among Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) subscales: A Study of Pre-service Teachers Training Program

Abstract

The study was intended to explore the correlation among different subscales of prospective teacher's Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK). Six knowledge domains of the TPACK framework (TK, PK, CK, TPK, PCK, and TPK) were examined as latent variables in this study. B.Ed (Hons) Degree program in the Education Department of Karakoram International University was the targeted pre-service teachers training program. The sample was constituted of Eighty-five prospective educators who voluntarily contributed to the study. Schmidt et al.'s instrument was utilized for the collection of responses from the participants. The Pearson correlation with the two-tail test is applied to examine the findings. The result reported a positive correlation among all the six TPACK domains. The range of the Pearson correlation coefficient among the latent variables was from 0.174 (connecting TPACK and PK) to 0.547 (connecting PCKand CK). The results suggest that the validation of research instruments for measurement of teacher's TPACK knowledge in the context of Pakistan is a key need of the time.