The Practices, Successes, and Challenges of Tutorial Program for Female Trainees in Bonga and Hossana Colleges of Teachers Education
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2009-07
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Addis Ababa University
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This research lIIork was condllcted aiming 01 examining the practices, successes and
major challenges of the tutorial program for female trainees in Bonga and Hossana
Colleges of Teachers Education. In search of vital considerations and preconditions
required to the ideal instructional settings of tutoring, literatures are found to devote
their scientific inquiries. This provides the guiding princ/f)les, strategies and remedial
suggestions reviewed here, for that matter. This study is descriptive survey study
undertaken using bolh quantitative and qualitative methods, in which the colleges
community (female trainees and instructors of both sexe.l) partic/f)ated.
QlIestionnaires, interview, fo cus group discussion and documenl review were lIsed as
data collecting inslruments and the data were analyzed by using Ji'equency count,
percentage and descriptive slalisticalmethods. While lutoring for female students was
employed in Ihe colleges lInder the sludy, Ihe practical impressions are idenlified to
have been denying the extent to which the program was thought to help Ihe
beneficiaries. In the research under taken, it was poinled Ollt Ihal among several
others, failures of olganizing the program, the non existence of clear-cut plan of
action, Ihe absence of legal accountabililies 10 be asked for such illjitted college
female lutorial practice, and wrong perceplion such as stereotypic reluclCince were
witnessed while shadowing the casls of the repercussion there on the eyes of
participants, the non parlicipant sllldents and the f aculty members. These and others
have contribuled much for the lesser significance of female tutorial programs
conducted in the colleges investigated. Thus, the shift towards creating and raising
awareness, assigning responsible coordinators, providing training, participating
IllOre fe male tutors, developing and employing different follow-up and evaluation
strategy and establishing proper comll7unication channel were what the research
fina lly recol1lmends,jor that matter.
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Challenges of Tutorial Program for Female