ERIC Number: EJ890877
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Publication Date: 2008-Mar
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Teacher Knowledge about Technology Integration: An Examination of Inservice and Preservice Teachers' Instructional Decision-Making
Greenhow, Christine; Dexter, Sara; Hughes, Joan E.
Science Education International, v19 n1 p9-25 Mar 2008
This study compared the abilities of inservice and preservice teachers to demonstrate an understanding of technology integration and to apply such knowledge to instructional decision-making. Using a set of online content-specific multimedia scenarios to resolve complex problems of teaching with technology in a simulated school environment, inservice teachers outperformed preservice teachers on criteria measuring practical and pedagogical content knowledge about technology integration; however, preservice and inservice teachers scored similarly in their ability to make an instructional decision about technology. In addition, both preservice and inservice teachers demonstrated a lack of weighing competing options in the case and a lack of orientation toward reflective and adjustable practices. Overall, inservice teachers demonstrated consideration of a broader range of classroom- and school-level factors in making a technology integration decision. Understanding, capturing, and measuring these differences is essential to advance theory on the dimensions of technological pedagogical content knowledge, and how it develops in different teacher sub-groups to advance the work of teacher educators concerned with designing courses about technology integration appropriate to learners' needs. (Contains 4 tables.)
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Technology Integration, Educational Technology, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Experienced Teachers, Knowledge Level, Decision Making, Computer Simulation, Case Studies, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Performance Based Assessment, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Comparative Testing, Problem Solving, Multimedia Materials
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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