The Relationship Between Agriculture Knowledge Bases for Teaching and Sources of Knowledge

• In Event: Career and Technical Education Research to Improve Teaching and Learning

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to describe the sources of content knowledge of current agriculture teachers using a review of literature, the perceived knowledge bases using an existing model of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), and to determine if a relationship exists between the two utilizing a multiple regression analysis. All of the sources of content knowledge were perceived as effective by teachers. The perceived ability for all six constructs of the PCK model were to at least a fair extent. Six of the seven sources of content knowledge were significant predictors for at least one of the constructs. Despite the high averages of perceived ability there were no significant models for two of the six PCK constructs.

Authors

• Amber Michelle Rice, University of Missouri

• Tracy J. Kitchel, University of Missouri