Influence Of Teacher Training And Development Programmes On Students’ Academic Performance In Mathematics
[ILORIN WEST LGA, KWARA-STATE]

CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter presents the summary of the entire research work, the conclusion, implication of the study, recommendations based on the findings from the study, limitations of the study and suggestions for further studies.
Summary
    The study investigated into influence of teachers training and staff development programme on student’s academic performance in Ilorin West local Government area of Kwara state. To achieve this objective, ten (10) secondary school were randomly selected as sample for the study Also, two hundreds (200) research subjects responded to the questionnaire tagged “Influence of Teachers Training and Development programmes on Students Academic Performance questionnaire”. Three hypotheses were tested in the study while Pearson product Moment Correlation Co-Efficient was the statistical tool employed to analysis data gathered from the questionnaire, specifically the students revealed that:
-    There is significant impact of regular attendance of workshops and seminars by teachers on students’ academic performance in secondary schools.
-    There is significant impact of acquisition of higher certificate by teachers on students academic performance in secondary schools
-    There is significant impact of teachers years of training on students academic performance in secondary school.
Conclusions
    Teachers have crucial roles to play in bringing about improve learning in students. the ability to effectively carry out these roles would be largely determined by the quality of training and staff development programmes made to and utilized by them therefore, it can be concluded that teacher training and staff development efforts in schools are the complex relationship between staff development and an improvement in students’ performance this will lead to marked improvement in content, process, context and out comes of students learning in schools. Thus, the students learning outcomes would be the starting point for further school improvement and staff development efforts (a cyclical process).
Implications of the Study
    The implications of this study could be extracted from the warning of Alabi (2005) that effective performance of teacher is essential for the success of school programmes such performance to large extent will depend on their knowledge and skills and confidence originating ideas as how best to carry the tasks of the jobs hence, the need for staff training and staff development programmes which should aim at improving the effectiveness of teachers for greater responsibilities.
    Also, this study implied that even one of the conditions requiring staff training and development is low productivity. A school may have teachers with appropriate teaching facilities, yet productivity may fall below expected standards due to lack of adequate skills and knowledge which are acquired through training and education.
Recommendations
      Based on the findings from the study, the following recommendations are hereby advanced;
    Every person who pursues a teaching career should expect to continue his development in form of education and training for the rest of his professional life this is more so because teaching is dynamic profession requiring continues up date of knowledge and skills for effective performance.
    Government should ensure that they provide teachers with in service training with pay regularly hence, training and education of teachers should become an integral part of educational programme with incentives such as release and assistance provided for their conduct.
    Education and training programmes for school personnel may not achieve their goals, if the school environment precludes learnt skills from actually being utilized. As a result the needs of the staff as well as the needs of the school should be assessed to determine the appropriate training activities required.
    The school time table should be arranged according to the exigencies of the training this will give room for active participation of teachers without allowing the school programmes to sulfer.
    Professionalism in teaching should be enforced as a statutory condition of employment of teachers like wise, appropriate pre-requisite management and leadership skills should be ascertained in appointing school principals Adequate induction programmes should also be given to staff promoted or taking on additional responsibilities.
Limitations of the Study
    The study examined the influence of teachers training and development programmes on the academic performance of students in Ilorin West local Government Area of Kwara State. As a result of inadequate time and finance, the study was limited to only ten (10) selected secondary schools and two hundreds (100) randomly selected students.
Suggestions for Further Studies
    Although the study invested into the influence of teacher training and development programmes on the academic performance of students in Ilorin West local Government Areas of Kwara state however, further studies can be carried out on the following areas.
1.    Factors affecting teachers’ effectiveness in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State Secondary School.
2.    Relationship between teachers’ qualification and students performance in Ilorin West local Government Area of Kwara State.