Impact of teacher training on students' achievement in mathematics

Abstract

This study focused on impact of teacher training on students’ achievement in mathematics of grade IX students of Kailali district. The objectives of this study were to find the impact of teacher’s training in teaching learning strategy of mathematics, to analyze the activities of trained teachers in mathematics class and to compare the achievement of students taught by trained and untrained teachers.This study is based on mixed design.Researcher selected 144 students from six community schools by convenience sampling method for this study. The data was collected from interview, questionnaire, class observation form and annual result of the schools. Mean, standard deviation and z-test were used for the analysis of quantitative data and the qualitative data analyzed by thematic analysis method. The study found that there was significance difference between mathematics achievement of students taught by trained and untrained teachers. Only teacher training did not affect whole students’ teaching learning activities of mathematics but there school’s environment, physical structure of school and number of students also effect students’ achievement in mathematics. There did not significance differences between the trained and untrained teachers in their classroom performance in teaching method and using materials. But trained teachers attitude and behavior was good with students in the classroom than untrained teachers. There were boys’ mathematics achievement was greater than girls’ mathematics achievement. So, significance difference between boys’ and girls’ achievement in mathematics taught by trained teachers.