Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia, Centro Universitario Asociado de Quito – Tumbaco

Abstract

This investigative work develops a pilot mentoring with students of first cycle of open mode and distance, which offered advice and guidance, in a joint effort between tutor, mentor and mentorizados, whose general objective is to design, establish and approve legally Handbook of mentoring program and guide for all students’ mentors, in order to consolidate the values of Christian humanism. The assigned sample was seven mentorizados assigned and active in the Regional Center, Quito – Tumbaco. We used the methods of descriptive, analytic - synthetic, inductive, through observation and interview, in addition to the techniques of bibliographic research and field results, gave answers to the object of this plan deductive and statistical research. As a general conclusion, it is stated that mentoring must be implemented it, through a course or pre-college workshop so that you orient and inform students, in order to reduce drop-out rates in the first cycle; Therefore the University community are invited to review the coaching program.