Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría para estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación a Distancia.

Abstract

The present investigation takes helping as an essential target, developing and evaluating a mentoría pilot project for students of the first cycle of Form at Distance belonging to the university center Quito-Tumbaco of the Particular Technical University of Loja. At this project was employed with 5 students mentorizados, with an investigation of qualitative - quantitative, exploratory and descriptive type, the used methods were an investigation action participative, descriptively, analytical - synthetic, inductively - deductive, and statistically. For the bibliographical investigation the following skills were used: reading, conceptual maps. And the field investigation skills were: observation, interview and survey. For the information compilation the following instruments were used: sheet of informative information, format of expectations and fears, questionnaires 1y 2 of needs for orientation, questionnaire of control of reading for mentors, evaluations of the process of mentoría, questionnaire of self-assessment of skills of reading and questionnaire of self-regulation and ripeness. This mentoría process developed with five students of the UTPL, verifying this way that there was 100 % of pupils what presented educational needs of type: academician, of adaptation, of insertion, of information and personnel