Entering University: a challenge for the academic guidance.

Abstract

Improve transition from secondary education to university has always been a challenge in academic guidance. Freshmen face a new personal, social, and academic context. Universities play a fundamental role in the insertion process of students coming from high school and vocational education into the university studies. During last years, a number of resources have been invested by the universities in order to develop actions that facilitate a wide range of information to prospective students. In this work we present the transition project of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), focused in two moments: pre-university guidance and first year of college. The core goals of the project are to facilitate the transition of students to college, raising informational and practical actions about the studies offered by the university in order to help future students in their decision-making process, and to set different ways of support through tutoring that promote the adaptation to the university environment and the development of their students. The institutional project of transition from secondary education to college studies of the UPV is coordinated by the Communication Area and the Institute of Educational Sciences (ICE-UPV) of this university. This is an open project that permits adaptations attending to the necessities reported by the school counselors, prospective and university students, and tutors.

Keywords

• orientación pedagógica
• integración escolar
• fracaso escolar
• opciones educativas
• métodos de aprendizaje
• tutoría
• enseñanza mutua.