An Investigation on Change of Pre-Service Teachers’ Self-Confidence in Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge

The purpose of this study is to determine the change in pre service science teachers’ self-confidence in technological pedagogical content knowledge. This study was conducted with 35 senior pre service science teachers who are enrolled in Science education department in a public university in the context of 8-week (16 hours) training in 2015-2016 academic year. In the first phase, the pre service science teachers were introduced with sample implementations of multimedia factors. Then, the participants were asked to prepare and present a presentation on the topics selected from the field of science enhanced with multimedia as a group. The study was designed according to the quasi-experimental one-group pretest-posttest modeling. Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Self-Confidence Scale was used as the data collection tool. As a result of the study, it was retained that pre service science teachers’ power point presentations supported with the multimedia factors has a positive effect on the change of their confidence and the presentations prepared by using the multimedia factors revealed positive changes in technological pedagogical content knowledge and technological pedagogical knowledge in terms of sub-dimensions