A Comprehensive Analysis on Technopedagogical Education Competency and Technology Perception of Pre-service Teachers: Relation, Levels and Views
A Comprehensive Analysis on Technopedagogical Education Competency and Technology Perception of Pre-service Teachers: Relation, Levels and Views
The main purpose of this research is to identify the competency and the perceptions of
pre-service teachers on technopedagogical education. While study group of quantitative
dimension is composed of 626 pre-service teachers; study group of qualitative extent is
composed of 67 pre-service teachers. The sample represents 35% of the population of
1778 students. The quantitative data were collected through Technopedagogical
Education Competency (Tpack-Deep) Scale and Technology Perception Scale and the
qualitative data were collected with an open ended-question form. It was concluded that
pre-service teachers generally regard themselves at a moderate level in the sense of
technopedogogical education competency, have positive perception towards technology
and there is a positive correlation between pre-service teachers’ technopedogogical
educational competency and perception towards technology. According to results of
qualitative analysis of the study, pre-service teachers think that educational technologies
have contributions to preparing information-communication technologies based upon
presentations, developing technology-based materials, preparing homework, doing
research, raising awareness about the importance of educational technology use in the
learning and teaching process, acquiring information about their department, developing
skill of using technology based on information-communication technologies and having
positive attitude
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