Case-based Professional Learning Course for Fostering Preservice Science Teachers' Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge of Inquiry with Mobile Game

Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) is a framework for teacher professional development. In current teacher education research, pre-service teachers are targeted to improve their teaching competencies based on implementing TPACK as an integrative framework of instructional interventions. This study purposed to investigate an effect of a TPACK-oriented mobile game learning in science (MGLS) module based on pre-service science teachers' subject-specific teaching knowledge development. The researchers implemented the MGLS to 31 sophomore pre-service science teachers at a former university's public teacher in the northeastern region of Thailand They were assigned to attend the MGLS within three weeks. They have been measured individual TPACK using a multiple-choice test before and after participating with the MGLS module. The findings illustrated that there was a significant difference between their TPACK scores of pre- and post-test. This result revealed that the MGLS could improve pre-service science teachers' TPACK. In addition, most pre-service science teachers in this study also intended to use the mobile game in nature of enhancement student learning with specific science content.