´Desarrollo y Evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoria con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia, Centro Universitario Asociado de Latacunga, año lectivo 2014-2015.

Abstract

This research is done in order to implement, develop and evaluate a pilot mentoring project, for the students of first cycle of distance modality, in the perspective of promoting the improvement of the quality of process of academic guidance and emergence of a culture of accompaniment, that promotes meaningful learning, since students who begin College present difficulties in adapting , lack of awareness and information on distance education and motivation system, generating the early abandonment of studies, then comes the urgency of developing in Latacunga city, a mentoring program involving two student that help (mentor) first cycle students (mentorizados) and a teacher of the UTPL (tutor); using the methods of: action, participatory, descriptive, analytical-synthetic, inductive, deductive, statistical research and techniques: bibliographic and research field, applying different questionnaires This investigation allowed to strengthen the motivational processes, major academic achievements and to reduce the index of early abandonment by means of the construction of the model of mentoring that develops in this work.