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Impact of Continuous Professional Development on Performance in High School Biology: A Systematic Review
Nepomuscene Hategekimana
Clement Niyigena
Gatarira Pierre Cobes
Abstract
Continuous professional development (CPD) is necessary for the goal of upgrading professional skills and abilities. Although CPD has been the subject of various research, biology instructors have had very little biology-specific teacher professional development. This systematic review's goal is to evaluate how CPD affects teachers and students' performance in biology subject. An overview of 35 articles from peer-reviewed journals that were published between 2006 and 2022 is given in this article. Qualitative content analysis was used to examine the data. A total of 35 publications from 27 journals underwent in-depth analysis. The analysis' primary areas of focus were CPD strategies, learning settings, cognitive and psychomotor abilities, attitudes and emotions, and evaluation techniques. The qualities of effective CPD techniques were also explored, and their implications for teaching and learning were highlighted. The academic performance of the students in biology was found to be significantly improved in various ways by a total of 22 different CPD approaches. The CPD strategies that strongly involved teachers and active student participation were those that were most heavily highlighted. The findings of this research revealed that CPD improved the student’s performance and the teacher’s competence towards Biology subject.
