Jo Tondeur|Ronny Scherer|Fazilat Siddiq|Evrim Baran
A comprehensive investigation of TPACK within pre-service teachers’ ICT profiles: Mind the gap!
Vrije Universiteit Brussel|University of Oslo|Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education|Middle East Technical University
study aims identify profiles preservice teachers order explore readiness integrate technology education assumption preservice teacher characteristics technological pedagogical content knowledge tpack go together influence teacher training specifically study examines whether preservice teachers clustered basis tpack typical set ictrelated characteristics eg general ict attitudes attitudes towards ict education ease use ict selfefficacy perceived support training institution adequately integrate ict education data collected sample 688 lastyear preservice teachers 18 teacher training institutions flanders dutchspeaking part belgium using correlational latent profile analysis results suggest 1 two profiles distinguished 2 tpack individual ictrelated characteristics positively correlated 3 preservice teachers profile strong tpack attitudes selfefficacy scores also report high scores support perceive teacher training institution implications role teacher training institutions discussed specific focus close gap two identified profiles