Abstract:
The aim of this study was to investigate Lecturers’ professional development and academic performance of students in Federal University of Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. The study employed descriptive research design and purposive sampling technique to select the respondents and questionnaire as research instrument as well as descriptive component of statistics to analysis the generated data. The revealed that there is a significant relationship between Lecturers’ professional development and academic performance of students in Federal University of Oye-Ekiti. The study showed that consistent Lecturers professional development programmes always led to better academic performance of students in Federal University of Oye-Ekiti. The study showed that Lecturers’ professional development led to improved teaching quality in Federal University of Oye-Ekiti. The study revealed different form of Lecturers professional development programme available in Federal University of Oye-Ekiti namely in-service training programe, workshop conference, seminar conference, computer training programme and video training programme. The study identified major constraint to Lecturers’ professional development in Federal University of Oye-Ekiti as non-encouragement by state and federal government, non-challant attitude by administrator, insufficient fund, lack of facilities and equipment and poor school environment.
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