Efficacy of Millennium Development Goals Capacity Development Workshop on Learners’ Mathematics Academic Performance

Students’ performance in mathematics had over the years been persistently poor which as a matter of fact attracted attention from various stakeholders and further raised interest in teachers’ experience in delivering the subject matter. In order to address the issue, MDGs came in to assist by sponsoring capacity building workshops for primary school teachers so that the problem would be tackled from the grassroots. The paper as such explores the impact of this capacity building workshop and how it assists teachers since its inception on how to increase their level of competence. Two instruments were used for the study; namely Teacher Competence Test (TCT) and Pupils’ Performance Test(PPT). The result of the study shows that there is difference in the performance of pupils taught by teachers thatattended the MDGs capacity building workshop. Sixty (60) teachers were selected purposively for the study andfour hundred and eighteen (418) pupils were selected to form the sample of the students. Hypotheses stated in the study were tested at 0.05 level of significance. After testing the hypotheses, it was found that both the performances of teachers and pupils were tremendously inmproved as a result of the capacity building workshop. The paper finally offers recommendations on how to help teachers increase their performance by exposing them to more rigorous academic training and the programme should be extended to senior secondary school teachers.