Professional Development Programmes And Teachers’ Effectiveness
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN-WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA SECONDARY SCHOOLS, KWARA STATE]

CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION OF RESULTS AND DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS
This chapter consist of the presentation of results in tables and discussion of findings from the analysis of data collected and analyzed. It is subdivided into answering of research questions, testing of hypotheses and discussion of findings.
Answering of Research Questions
Two research questions formulated to guide the study were answered as follow:
Research Question One: What is the level of professional development programmes (Higher education, seminar and workshops) Ilorin-west secondary schools?
The answer to this research question is presented in table 1

Source: Kwara State universal basic education board (2015)
Table one showed that the total number of teachers in Kwara state basic schools is 20235. Out of this number of teachers, 5232 teachers get involve in training yearly. This showed that 25.9% of the total number of teachers attends training every year. Since there is low percentage of teachers’ involvement in training, it can be inferred that the level of teachers’ training among Kwara state basic school is very low.
In Ilorin-west, out of the total 3,291 primary school teachers, only 420 teachers attend staff training yearly. The government have stipulated number of teachers that they send to workshops, seminars, conferences or for higher education.  The percentage of 420 out of the total 3291 teachers in Ilorin-west is 12.8% which is below average, it is suffix to conclude that the level of staff training in Ilorin-west primary schools is considerably low.