Vol. 23 No. 1 (2013)
Artículos de Investigación

Institutional Tutoring Program: a strategy for raising standards of achievement in an educational institution

Yazpik Hernández Vargas
UNIDAD PROFESIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARIA DE INGENIERÍA CAMPUS GUANAJUATO DEL INSTITUTO POLITECNICO NACIONAL
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Juan Carlos Martínez Espinosa
UNIDAD PROFESIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARIA DE INGENIERÍA CAMPUS GUANAJUATO DEL INSTITUTO POLITECNICO NACIONAL
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Claudia Isela Carranza Nuñez
ESCUELA SUPERIOR DE INGENIERÍA Y ARQUITECTURA CAMPUS ZACATENCO DEL INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL
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Published 2013-02-28

Keywords

  • Educación Superior,
  • Programa Institucional de Tutorias,
  • Tuning
  • Higher Education,
  • Intitutional Tutoring Pro¬gram,
  • Tuning

How to Cite

Hernández Vargas, Y., Martínez Espinosa, J. C., & Carranza Nuñez, C. I. (2013). Institutional Tutoring Program: a strategy for raising standards of achievement in an educational institution. Acta Universitaria, 23(1), 31–36. https://doi.org/10.15174/au.2013.395

Abstract

 This paper shows educational intervention strategies as an aid in reducing student failure and dropout rates supported on an institutional mentoring program, which is among current trends regarding policies for Higher Education (ES). The framework that was established in the European Space for Higher Education for the development of the Tuning project and its later adaptation and implementation in Latin America (AL) was considered. The aforementioned agencies have contributed to the creation of a normative framework for the development of competency-based education, an approach engaged by the Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN) as part of its new educational model. During this research, two joint strategies were presented: auxiliary courses and a counseling program, both supported by the institutional tutoring pro­gram in order to reduce student failure and dropout rates. The results showed that there was a 22.72% decrease in failure rate when considering all the students that were enrolled during the semester. It can be concluded that auxiliary courses and counseling programs are an al­ternative that can help reduce student failure and dropout rates.