AN APPRAISAL OF PRIVATE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS' TPACK ON PUPILS' PERFORMANCE IN COMPUTER STUDIES IN OSUN STATE

Abstract

The study focused on appraisal of Teachers' Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) on pupils' performance in Computer Studies in Osun State private primary schools. The study also investigated the nexus between teachers' content knowledge and pupils' achievement in computer studies, teachers' pedagogical knowledge and pupils' achievement in computer studies, as well as teachers' technological knowledge and pupils' achievement in computer studies. All private primary schools pupils and teachers in Osun State constituted population for the study and out of this, a sample of 15 teachers and 300 pupils were selected using multistage sampling procedures. A verified TPACK scale was used to elicit data from the teachers while Primary Three Computer Studies Test (PTCST) was used to determine the pupils' achievement test. The reliability coefficient of 0.89 was obtained from PTCST using Cronbach alpha. The findings revealed a significant relationship between teachers' Technological Knowledge and pupils' academic performance in computer studies (F = 7.596, p < 0.05). It further discovered a significant relationship between teachers' pedagogical knowledge and pupils' academic performance in computer studies (F = 4.396, p < 0.05). Likewise, there was a significant combined relationship between teachers' TPACK and pupils' academic performance in computer studies in private primary schools in the study 2 area (F = 5.634; p < 0.05; R = 0.054). However, there existed no significant relationship between teachers' content knowledge and the pupils' academic performance in computer studies in the study area (F = 0.564, p > 0.05). The study concluded that teachers' technological and pedagogical knowledge as well as combined TPACK influenced pupils' academic achievement in computer studies. This implies that teachers technological, pedagogical and TPACK should be developed more so that pupils' performance in computer studies can improve more in the selected private primary schools in the state.