Effect of Teachers' Professional Education on Students' Achievement in Mathematics

The purpose of the study was to compare the effectiveness of teaching of professionally trained and untrained teachers and the effect of students’ gender on secondary school students’ achievement in Mathematics. Data were collected from four public and private boys and girls high schools’ record. Four hundred secondary school graduates (Two hundred boys and two hundred girls) taught by trained and untrained teachers of mathematics were selected conveniently. The results of the study supported the fact that the students taught by trained teachers showed better results in Mathematics and gender has no significant effect on achievement in mathematics.