Programming: Teachers and Pedagogical Content Knowledge in the Netherlands

In this article we report about a study to assess Dutch teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge (small PCK), with special focus on programming as a topic in secondary school Informatics education. For this research, we developed an online research instrument: the Online Teacher small PCK Analyser (OTPA). The results show that Dutch teachers' small PCK scores between low and medium. Also we enquired whether there is any relation between teachers' small PCK and the textbooks they use by comparing the results of this study with those of a previous one in which the small PCK of textbooks was asses... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Mara SAELI
Jacob PERRENET
Wim M.G. JOCHEMS
Bert ZWANEVELD
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
Reihe/Periodikum: Informatics in Education, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 81-114 (2012)
Verlag/Hrsg.: Vilnius University
Schlagwörter: pedagogical content knowledge / programming / secondary school / assessment / Special aspects of education / LC8-6691
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.15388/infedu.2012.05

In this article we report about a study to assess Dutch teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge (small PCK), with special focus on programming as a topic in secondary school Informatics education. For this research, we developed an online research instrument: the Online Teacher small PCK Analyser (OTPA). The results show that Dutch teachers' small PCK scores between low and medium. Also we enquired whether there is any relation between teachers' small PCK and the textbooks they use by comparing the results of this study with those of a previous one in which the small PCK of textbooks was assessed. The results show that there is no strong relation. Finally, we looked for trends between teachers' small PCK and their educational backgrounds, as most of the Dutch teachers have a different background than Informatics. The results show that also in this case there is no strong relation.