ERIC Number: EJ1096603
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4871
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Preservice Teachers' Professional Knowledge and Its Relation to Academic Self-Concept
Paulick, Isabell; Großschedl, Jörg; Harms, Ute; Möller, Jens
Journal of Teacher Education, v67 n3 p173-182 May-Jun 2016
We investigated the factorial structure of preservice teachers' academic self-concept with regard to three domains of professional knowledge (content knowledge [CK], pedagogical content knowledge [PCK], and pedagogical/psychological knowledge [PPK]). We also analyzed the relation between preservice teachers' academic self-concept and their professional knowledge. The sample consisted of N = 631 German preservice secondary teachers in biology and physics. To analyze the factorial structure of the academic self-concept, we applied confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) and compared different models of complexity. Results confirmed that preservice teachers' academic self-concept is empirically separable into CK, PCK, and PPK. Furthermore, the self-concept scales were positively related to the corresponding test scores in the professional knowledge domains. Our results revealed that preservice teachers' academic self-concept is differentiated at a very early state of teacher education and reflects CK, PCK, and PPK performance. Hence, self-concept measures seem to provide an alternative means to assess preservice teachers' professional knowledge in comparison with traditional performance measures.
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teacher Education, Factor Structure, Secondary School Teachers, Self Concept Measures, Foreign Countries, Factor Analysis, Biology, Physics, Statistical Analysis, Goodness of Fit, Correlation, Science Teachers, Scores, Questionnaires
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Secondary Education
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