AŃLISIS DE LAS VARIABLES PARA MEDIR LA EFECTIVIDAD DE LAS TUTOR͍AS EN LA INSTITUCIÓN DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR (IES) POLITÉCNICO INTERNACIONAL

ANALISIS DE VARIABLES PARA MEDIR EFECTIVIDAD DE TUTORIAS EN INSTITUCION DE EDUCACION SUPERIOR

Abstract

This research project was undertaken within the continual improvement framework of varied academic support programs offered by the Higher Education Institution called Politécnico Internacional. One of these academic support programs is named tutoring within which students receive academic support in the subjects concerning the highest rates of failure. The main aim of the tutorial program deals with strengthening the students´ academic competences resulting in a better academic performance. This program also seeks to contribute to diminish the dropout rates. Nonetheless, the Institution do not know the importance and the relationship of the variables which may have an impact on the effectives of the tutoring program. Therefore, this research project aimed at analyzing those variables in order to contribute in the construction of an indicator that allows to account for the effectiveness of the program. The methodology of this study embraced a quantitative statistical explanatory analysis with gathered data in a year window time. The population of 3113 attendances and 1129 students for 2018-1, 630 students for 2018-2, 583 for 2018-3 and 443 for 2018-4 periods were considered to carry out this study. A convenient sample of the first period was utilized. The data were organized and coded in three data bases for the statistical treatment. It was observed that the influence of the majority of the factors surrounding a tutoring do not correlate the effectiveness of it directly. It is important to understand fully the complexity of the tutorial process immersed within the dynamic of the Institution to determine an indicator that allows to measure the effectiveness of the tutoring.