Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes del primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia, Centro Universitario Asociado de Ibarra.

Abstract

This mentoring pilot project implemented by the UTPL was conducted by graduate students of the Degree Education Sciences which played the role of mentors, under the guidance and direction of the college teacher’s team (MAD) and five students of the first cycle of the Degree of Law as mentees; the purpose of it was to elucidate questions and needs of counseling presented by the mentees and seek for developing psycho-educational actions to facilitate their adaptation to the system of distance education and improve their academic achievements; all with well-founded theoretical basis. The methods that facilitated the detection of the most frequent guidance needs in the mentee were: Participatory action, descriptive, inductive-deductive and Statistical Action; using research techniques and instruments derived from those techniques. In conclusion this research allowed understanding and analyzing the importance of implementing in college a guidance culture for the new students in order to reduce the rate of early abandonment.