Structure of TKPCK of Mathematics Teachers in Junior Middle Schools in China

Abstract

Recently, TPACK has drawn much attention from researchers and has become focus in the field of educational research. Surveys are used in this study to investigate middle school math teachers' TK and PCK. A correlation analysis is then done to the TK and PCK data to determine their relationship. Aspects of investigation included the awareness, sophistication, and application of information technology; the assessment of the teaching level and on-site class investigation; the correlation analysis between the middle school mathematics teachers' TK and PCK. Results indicate that middle school teachers have relatively higher awareness and sophistication in terms of information technology. In addition, TKand PCK are significantly positively correlated with each other.