Technological pedagogical and content knowledge among vocational special education teachers
Abstract
Teachers play an essential function in implementing the ultimate goal of education by producing insightful human capital in line with the goals of the Pelan Pembangunan Pendidikan Malaysia (PPPM) 2013-2025. This effort is also the main responsibility of special education teachers in improving a learning process that satisfies the specific necessities of special needs students. Special education teachers require to furnish themselves with a wide assortment of knowledge and skills so that quality education can be applied to students with special needs. Therefore, this study investigates the level of technological pedagogical and content knowledge, teaching style, self-efficacy and competence of vocational special education teachers. This research employs a quantitative approach applying the survey method. In this research, 36 teachers from vocational special education schools from the state of Selangor involved as a sample. The collected data were analyzed, adopting the SPSS application to get the mean and standard deviation.
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