Desarrollo y evaluación de un programa piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de educación superior de la modalidad a distancia del Centro Asociado Quito-Carcelén, ciclo académico octubre 2015-febrero 2016

Abstract

Aabstract:Due to the existence of a high dropout rate among the first level students in distance education system, the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja decided to develop, implement and evaluate a pilot mentoring program, the objective pursued by the system is to help solving the academic, personal and social needs of the mentee through the support and guidance during the study period. This program includes three key figures, the tutor of the university, the mentor, graduated student of Education career and three mentees, allocated by college, those are partners Center Quito Carcelén students which despite having resources for self-learning have failed to develop satisfactorily. In this project disclosed the results of the analysis and discussion of the problems detected which were collected with the use of methods: exploratory, descriptive and statistical. This mentoring program is an excellent initiative of the university in its efforts to develop, improve and strengthen the capacities of adaptation of students mentees.