The TPACK Analysis of High School Biology Teachers in Sragen Regency, Central Java Based on Teacher Certification Status

Abstract

Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) is the combination of knowledge about PK, CK and TK. The purposes of this study were to find out how the TPACK of high school biology teachers in Sragen Regency and to find out whether there were differences in the TPACK between certified biology teachers and those who were not certified. The type of this research was descriptive research with survey methods. The population in this study was a hypothetical population (the forecast of the population, what the population is expected to be) and the sample representing the population was taken using convenience sampling techniques which included 17 biology teachers spread across 13 high schools in Sragen Regency. Based on the research that has been carried out, the results showed that the knowledge of PCK is very good (85.0%), TCK is poor (47.6%), TPK is fair (64.2%), and TPACK teachers were in a fairly poor category (51.3%). The results also showed that there was no significant difference between the TPACK of certified biology teachers and non-certified biology teachers with a significance value greater than 0.05.