Chaemchoy, S. (2017). An investigation of Thai principals’ technology leadership and understanding of mobile technology in education: Apply the TPACK framework. Advanced Science Letters, 23(2), 1134-1139. Doi: 10.1166/asl.2017.7518

Abstract:

“The purposes of this study were to (1) investigate Thai principals’ understanding of mobile technology in education and (2) investigate Thai principals’ technology leadership. The on-line questionnaire was used to collect data from 363 principals. Data analysis included frequency, Mean, Standard Deviation, t-test and One-way ANOVA. The results of this study found that: (1) Thai principals’ understanding of mobile technological knowledge (mTK) was at medium level whereas content knowledge (CK), pedagogical knowledge (PK), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), mobile technological content knowledge (mTCK), mobile technological pedagogical knowledge (mTPK) and mobile technological pedagogical and content knowledge (mTPACK) were at high level. (2) Thai principals’ understanding of mobile technology in education was statistically significantly different at 0.05 level in the score of gender, school location area, school size, region, years of administrator experience and highest level of education. (3) Thai principals’ technology leadership was at high level. (4) Thai principals’ technology leadership was statistically significantly different at 0.05 level in the score of area of school located.”