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The study attempted to examine the relationship between teacher preparation, professional development and students’ academic performance in selected secondary schools in Ikeja Local Government Area of Lagos State. In the study, relevant and related literature was reviewed under sub headings. The descriptive research survey design was applied in the assessment of the respondents’ opinions, with the use of the questionnaire and the sampling technique. In this study, two hundred respondents were selected randomly through the application of the stratified random selection method to represent the entire population of the study. Five null hypotheses were formulated and tested with the use of the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient tool at 0.05 level of significance. Results indicate that: a significant relationship exists between teachers’ mastery of content and students’ academic performance in the school, a significant relationship exists between teachers’ teaching method and students’ academic performance, teachers’ educational qualification had a statistically significance relationship with students’ academic performance, there is a significant relationship between teachers’ years of teaching and students’ academic performance and it was revealed that a significant relationship exists between teachers’ attitude and students’ academic performance. The following recommendations were made by the researchers at the end of the study, teachers should always endeavour to teach well in the school, knowing that, they are the people that are responsible for the moulding and changing the characters of the children in the school. and students should be responsive to their teachers' instruction.
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