Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia, centro universitario asociado de San Rafael, ciclo académico diciembre 2014- julio 2015

Abstract

The national research program carried out by the UTPL, having as main objective the of develop, implement and evaluate a pilot mentoring project for students of first cycle MAD, that impulse to improve the quality of academic-oriented processes, where a culture of accompaniment is acquired and this favor to meaningful learning, preventing the premature abandonment of University studies in order to develop actions of counselling, describe actions carried out in a climate of communication between mentor-student, Exchange information and determine goals for the estimation of peer mentoring analyzing management of mentoring. This investigation involved the teacher tutor, student's last semester of the career of Psychology (mentor) and two students from new entrants to the University (mentorizados), using descriptive methods, analytic - synthetic, inductive and deductive and statistical techniques of bibliographic research and field research with instruments such as questionnaires, self-assessment, qualification and needs, records of observation of activities, being detected so deficiencies in the mentorizados of insertion and adaptation academic orientation, personnel and information.