Students’ Assessment of Hall Tutorship at University Of Cape Coast, Ghana

Abstract

Hall tutorship as a guidance program can be explained as a series of meetings between a resident student and the hall tutor assigned to his /her room or floor, to address general welfare situations and to seek total development of the student on campus. The study investigated students’ assessment of hall tutorship services rendered in the halls of residence at University of Cape Coast, Ghana. Six research questions and one hypothesis were answered and tested respectively. The participants comprised 380 resident students who were selected from the six major traditional halls of residence at the University of Cape Coast through the use of multi-stage sampling procedure. Data were analysed with the use of frequencies, percentages, mean scores, standard deviations and independent sample t-test with the assistance of IBM SPSS Statistics version 21. The study revealed that hall tutorship exists in the halls of residence with four forms of hall tutorship sessions (Group Meeting, One-to-One Tutorship, Room-to-Room Visitation and Roommates-Meet-Tutor) being organised and majority of the students had benefited. Also, participants demonstrated positive attitudes toward the hall tutorship, high impact on their living conditions, and a high level of satisfaction from attending the sessions. Despite this, the students identified challenges such as the fear of other resident students knowing about their problems, lack of regular refreshment during sessions, their colleagues not liking to attend hall tutorship sessions, and hall tutors not being readily available and easily accessible. In view of this, it is recommended that the hall tutors, hall managements and the university should consider the following remedies: giving assurance of confidentiality and trust to students, regular refreshment for side attraction, adequate encouragement for students to have more personal interest in the hall tutorship services and hall tutors being more available and accessible.