Pedagogical Content Knowledge with Primary Pre-service Teacher on Density: Validation of a Questionnaire
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https://doi.org/10.22600/1518-8795.ienci2022v27n2p257Keywords:
Pedagogical Content Knowledge, science Education, preservice teacher, primary EducationAbstract
Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) is a way of understanding the complex relationship between different components and the knowledge necessary to teach. To characterize this type of knowledge, multiple instruments have been designed, these are used in descriptive research, with qualitative methodologies, however, none focuses on the teaching of density. Therefore, the present study seeks to validate a questionnaire to measure primary pre-service teachers’ PCK on density. A total of 210 primary pre-service teachers participated in this study. Five components of PCK and nine dimensions make up the final version of the questionnaire. Acceptable reliability was obtained (? = 0.738). The PCK structure on density, the result of the correlational analysis, shows how knowledge about teaching strategies is the articulating axis of the PCK.References
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