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Item Assessment of in-service training programme attended by secondary school agricultural science teachers in Kwara Central Senatorial District, Nigeria.(Journal of Educational Management (JEM), 2019) Afolabi, K.O., Adesanya, E.O., Shuaib, S.B., & Jimoh, S.B.The paper training programmes attended by Agricultural Science Teachers in Secondary School in Kwara Central examined the in-service attended Teachers Senatorial District, Nigeria. Specifically, the study determined the demographic characteristics of the respondents, the in-service training programmes attended the respondents, the organisers or sponsors by of the in-service programme, areas where agricultural science teachers obtained training, constraints to agricultural science teachers ’ in-service training programmes and strategies for improving in-service training programmes. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. One hundred and twenty (120) agricultural science teachers were randomly selected from a population of 200 Agricultural Science teachers in 94 senior secondary schools in the study area. The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics namely: frequency, percentage and mean. The findings showed that the majority of the respondents were male aged between 29-35 years, had B.Ed. degree and teaching experience between 1—5 years. The in-service programmes attended by agricultural science teachers include seminars and workshops. Ministry of Education, Teaching Service Commission, Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Universities were major organisers of in-service training programmes. Based on the findings, the study recommended that school administrators and relevant government agencies should provide adequate funding or set aside special fund for periodical training and re training of agricultural science teachers.