Self-Efficacy Perception Levels of Prospective Classroom Teachers toward Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge

The aim of this study is to assess self-efficacy perception levels of prospective classroom teachers toward technological pedagogical content knowledge. Study group consisted of classroom prospective teachers enrolled at Fırat, Cumhuriyet, Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen, Erciyes, Erzincan, Karadeniz Technic and Adıyaman Universities in 2011-2012 academic year. Web Pedagogical Content Knowledge scale, developed by Schmidt and others (2009) and adapted into Turkish by Öztürk and Horzum (2011) was used as the data collection tool in the study. The scale was administered on 628 (349 female and 279 male) prospective teachers. Independent groups t test and one way ANOVA were used to analyze the data. Research results reveal that prospective classroom teachers' self-efficacy perception levels toward technological pedagogical content knowledge differed in terms of gender. But their self-efficacy perception levels did not differ in terms of university variable.

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