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

Due to the existence of a high percentage of dropout students first level in distance education, the Technical University of Loja decided to develop, implement and evaluate a pilot mentoring, the objective pursued by the system program is to help address 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 graduate student mentor career education and three mentees counselor assigned by the university, undergraduate students of the Associated Center Quito-Carcelen, 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 application 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