Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia, del Centro Universitario Asociado de Machala, ciclo Octubre/14-Febrero/15

Abstract

The Mentoring Project raised is governed by the guidance needs of students, to achieve greater involvement by guidance designed to optimize academic achievement, personal development, integration at university level, motivation to learn and achieve goals to make it protagonist of their own learning. All this research leads to a pilot mentoring experience for undergraduates distance learning Associate Center Machala, to respond to the problem of dropout in the area of Law and above all promote the improvement of the quality of academically oriented processes, personnel and the emergence of a culture of support. Within the research methods they were developed: Investigative participatory, descriptive, analytical and statistical; self-evaluation needs guidance and observation record of activities: besides literature research techniques and field were used, finally questionnaires were used. It was concluded that promotes mentoring improving academic quality, an appropriate solution needs to provide guidance and self encouraged.