Summary of Journal 7

Surveying Indonesian Teachers’ Design Belief and TPACK for 21^st Century Oriented Learning

Ching Sing CHAI, Joyce Hwee Ling KOH, Uma NATARAJAN, Pei-Shan TSAI, Murni RAMLI & Ari WIDODO

This study validates a survey created to study Indonesia teachers’ beliefs about lesson design and their technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) for 21st century oriented learning. The teacher’s design beliefs, which is a new perspective in understanding teachers’ beliefs, consist of their view about their design disposition (DD), beliefs about the new culture of learning (BNCL), and their beliefs about teacher’s role as designer (TAD). The TPACK survey, which is also newly created, examines the teachers’ efficacy about their knowledge of using technology for active and constructive learning, authentic learning and collaborative learning instead of adopting the seven factors TPACK. There are two research questions. They are: 1) Is the instrument valid and reliable for the purpose of surveying Indonesian teachers’ design beliefs and their 21st century learning oriented (21CLO) TPACK? And 2) What are the relationships between the Indonesian teachers’ design beliefs and their 21st century learning oriented TPACK?

Exploratory factor  analysis and reliability analysis reveal that the six factors survey is valid and reliable. In addition, all factors are significantly correlated. Path analysis reveals that two of the teachers’ design beliefs (DD and BNCL) predict the teachers TPACK for 21st century oriented learning. The results imply that it is likely necessary to consider teachers’ design beliefs when teacher educators plan to foster teachers’ TPACK.