School Improvement

to Strengthen STEM Education: TPACK

Pimpaka Prasertsilp, Walisa Romsaiyud
Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (STOU), THAILAND
Agenda

• STEM education
• TPACK model
• DEMO: Predicting Students' Performance of
School Examination Result by using Machine
Learning

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STEM education

• STEM as an interdisciplinary discipline of

Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics
• TPACK model – develop 21st century teacher
knowledge and skills for implementing
instructional strategies to strengthen STEM
education
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TPACK model –
teacher’s knowledge for instructional strategies

Pedagogical Technological
Knowledge Knowledge
(PK) (TK)

Content Knowledge
(CK)

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 TPACK model

TPACK –Technological
Pedagogical and
TK
Content Knowledge
TPK TCK
TPACK

PK PCK CK
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TPACK model

• What teachers

CK know
• facts, concepts,
theories
• How they
teach
PK • Instructional
strategies,
teaching
methods
• How
technology is
TK used
• PC, tablet,
mobile, web 6
Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK)

CK
PCK
PK Approach to support
different learning styles

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Technological Content Knowledge (TCK)

CK
TCK
TK Use tools to collect
and analyze data

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Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK)

PK
TPK
TK Use tools to share
documents and collaborate
with others
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 TPACK model
context

TPACK –Technological
Pedagogical and
TK
Content Knowledge
TPK TCK
TPACK

PK PCK CK
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Source: Mishra & Koehler (2006)
TPACK model –
teacher’s knowledge for instructional strategies
What’s your
TPACK look like?

Example:
developing mobile application
as a learning tool for students

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DEMO: Predicting students' performance of
school examination result by using Machine
Learning
Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University : STOU
O-NET
• Ordinary National Educational Test
• To test the knowledge and thinking ability of Grade 6, 9, and 12 students in
Thailand
• The test subjects consist of Thai language, Mathematics, Science, Social
Studies, Religion and culture, and Foreign languages.
• Universities use the overall grade 12 (K-12) marks in calculating an
admission average.
• A machine learning approach for predicting students’ characteristics which
induce their behavior and performance
• In the example, we have a table of student information, with 249 rows and
6 attributes: public and private schools, school areas, gender, age, math,
and science scores for grade 12.
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 Exploratory data analysis

• Do Public school students have performed

higher than Private school counterparts on
standardized achievement tests?
• Do city schools perform better than rural
schools?
• Does age affects CGPA (Cumulative Grade Point
Average)?

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Private schools versus public schools test scores

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Do city schools perform better than rural schools?

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Does age affects CGPA?

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 Prediction Model on Student Performance-1

Total Number of Instances: 249

Correctly classified instances: 86.74% MATH
Incorrectly classified instances: 13.25% <=30 >30

SCHOOL
N(192) TYPE
=PUBLIC =PRIVATE

Y(23) SCI
<=34 >34

N(24) Y(10)
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 Prediction Model on Student Performance-2
Student 1 Student 2
MATH
School Type Public Private <=30 >30
School Address City Rural
Age 16 18 SCHOOL
N(192) TYPE
Gender M F
CGPA 2.5 4
=PUBLIC =PRIVATE
Math 27 50
Sci 22 50 Y(23) SCI
output ? ? <=34 >34
prediction

N(24) Y(10)

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TPACK in Predicting Students’ performance

CK:
students’ data,

TK TK:
school information
PK:
applying machine Approach for
TPK TCK learning approach addressing
to predict students’ different teaching
TPACK performance assessments

PK PCK CK
TPACK

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School improvement

Administrator collaboration to the policy for sustainable

development of STEM education

Teacher perception towards teaching STEM

Student engagement in STEM education

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 Discussion Questions?

• Asst. Prof. Dr. Pimpaka Prasertsilp

• Pimpaka.Pra@stou.ac.th

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Walisa Romsaiyud

• Walisa.Rom@stou.ac.th

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