Desarrollo y Evaluación de una Experiencia Piloto de Mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia, Centro Universitario Asociado de Quito

Abstract

The Technical University of Loja has developed a Peer Mentoring Project where participants are undergraduate students (mentees) with a graduate student or attending the last cycle studies (Mentor), in this case all from titling Psychology. This project has made in the Regional Center of Quito, in order to try to meet the needs of newcomers to a new educational system as it is at a distance pupils which results in many difficulties and a large percentage of abandonment of the degree. For this research has been used participatory action research method, descriptive method, analytic-synthetic method, inductive-deductive method and statistical method. It has also been proposed a Mentor Manual, for the record of accomplishments and be a guide for the process to be followed in such projects. In addition Mentoring Project has been very beneficial for students and mentees for Mentor for mutual learning that has occurred, also used by the university