Implementation of Tpack: Preservice Teacher Motivation

Abstract

Science education today has been transformed to adapt towards the advancement of technology. Thus, it is important for teachers today to have technological knowledge so that they can suitably integrate technology into their teaching in the classroom. For that reason, this study is made to discover pre-service science teacher preparedness towards the implementation of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) by their knowledge in TPACK and their motivation to implement it. The TPACK survey instrument and the motivation survey were distributed to pre-service teachers in Puncak Alam, Selangor in purpose answer each research question. Results indicate that among seven TPACK domains which are TK, CK PK, PCK, TCK, TPK, and TPACK, TPACK domain was found to have the highest mean score. It is also found that pre-service teachers have high motivation towards implementing TPACK. The correlation test analysis shows that there is no significant relationship between pre-service teacher knowledge in TPACK and their motivation.