Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia, Centro Universitario Asociado Pasaje, periodo “octubre 2015 febrero 2016

Abstract

This degree work is the result of a project undertaken by the Technical University of Loja aimed at students of the first cycle probability of presenting risk of abandonment and academic difficulties; therefore the objective is to improve the quality of the processes of academic orientation and prevent dropout. For this project he attended a graduate student Career Education Sciences played an important role as mentor five undergraduate students from different degrees, belonging to the Associated Center Passage. For the project the method of Participatory Action Research (IAP) was used. Similarly mentoring is based on the method of participatory research, allowing align the mentees in the academic, personal and social level. Once perfected research, the need to promote permanent mentoring processes in order to strengthen harmony and processes of academic and personal skills of students identified. Key words: mentoring, counseling, mentors, mentees, method of participatory action research