Desarrollo y Evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia Centro Universitario Ambato en el año lectivo 2014-2015

Abstract

This National Research Project "Development and Evaluation of a pilot mentoring for undergraduate students of Distance Education, University Center Commonwealth of Ambato" cycle September to February, 2015, was conducted with the aim to implement, develop and evaluate a reasonable pilot mentoring with a view to encouraging and promoting quality in the processes of academic orientation project. This work involved students (mentees) first cycle at risk of dropping out not to achieve their goals in academic studies; graduate of Human and Religious Sciences (mentor) and professor at the UTPL (counselor) so mentoring triad is formed. The methods used during the mentoring project were: participatory research, descriptive, analytic-synthetic, inductive and deductive statistical action. In meetings mentoring interviews, observations, rating scales, surveys were conducted. It is developing a Mentor Manual, which will guide future mentoring projects were also carried out. In response to this research it is concluded that the mentoring program has multiple benefits which allows the student to have a guidance and counseling address their various concerns and needs, facilitates self-realization, improving their approach to college and improves learning university education.