Professional training needs assessment of the faculty of the college of education and college of arts and sciences: inputs to faculty in-service training program development

The study was conducted du ring the first half of the calendar year 2016. It was spearheaded by the college of Education, in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences. The study aimed to discover the level of participation and the professional training needs of the COED and CAS Faculty in instruction, research, and extension. The study employed proportional sampling and took 75% of the faculty of both colleges as representative sample. The findings of the study revealed that the respondents were highly involved in instruction activities, moderately involved in research activities and highly involved in extension activities. The study was also able to find that the respondents were highly in need of professional in-service training in the areas of instruction, research and extension. The results of the study implied that the COED and CAS faculty are taking their involvement seriously in their mandated functions of instruction, research and extension. They manifest a high level of involvement in instruction and extension, and are moderately involved in research activities. These levels of involvement are echoed by their needs, which are reported to be high, especially those under research training needs.