PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE (PCK) AND TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS IN GEOGRAPHY TEACHING IN RESPECT OF EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATION; A COMPARATIVE STUDY.

<em>The present study is concerned with the subject of Geography and its teachers in secondary school. The objective was to find out the status of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in Geography teachers and also its effect on Self-efficacy and Teacher effectiveness together. For conducting this study descriptive survey method was employed. The data was collected from 401 Geography teachers of secondary schools of West Bengal. The data was analyzed through SPSS 21. The MANOVA result led to reject the null hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance that there would be no significant multivariate effect for the combined dependent variables of self-efficacy and teacher effectiveness in respect of teachers’ level of PCK in geography with Wilks' Lambda (i.e. Exact Statistic) value of .970, Pillai's Trace value of .030, Hotelling’s Trace value of .031 and Roy's Largest Root value of .031. All the ‘p’ values were less than .05. Post hoc test showed that teachers with high level of PCK in Geography were significantly different from the teachers having moderate and low levels of PCK in geography in their self-efficacy. On the other hand, teachers with high level of PCK were significantly different from the teachers having low levels of PCK in geography in teacher effectiveness. Study also revealed that, teachers self-efficacy is positively related with teacher effectiveness in geography teaching.</em>

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Content Knowledge, Enacted Pedagogical Content Knowledge, and Student Performance Between Teachers With Different Levels of Content Expertise

Journal of Teaching in Physical Education ◽

10.1123/jtpe.2018-0292 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 111-120 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Insook Kim ◽

Bomna Ko

Keyword(s):

Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽

Student Performance ◽

Content Knowledge ◽

Teacher Effectiveness ◽

Motor Performance ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Evidence Based Practices ◽

Pedagogical Content ◽

Content Expert ◽

Different Levels

Purpose: This study examined how content knowledge (CK) varies between teachers with different levels of content expertise in teaching volleyball. In addition, it investigated changes to the content-experienced (C-Exd) teachers’ enacted pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and their students’ performances after developing CK, compared with those of the content-expert (C-Ext) teachers. Method: Two C-Exd and two C-Ext teachers and their 72 students participated in this study. A well-designed CK workshop was implemented for the two C-Exd teachers’ CK improvement. Differences in the teachers’ CK, enacted PCK, and their students’ performance measures were compared. Results: The results of this study indicated that the C-Ext teachers possessed stronger CK than the C-Exd teachers and that the C-Exd teachers improved their enacted PCK and the students’ motor performance after the CK workshop without showing statistically significant differences from those of the C-Ext teachers. Conclusion: The study presents ways to promote teacher effectiveness with supportive evidence-based practices.

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