Training needs of university professors in skills related to the tutoring action

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine the degree of training of teachers against the competencies that are considered essential for the performance of the tutoring action in the university. So that there could be valued which are the strong points and which are deficit for the production of futures programs of formation of the professorship opposite to the performance of the new tutoring function inside the EHEA. In this investigation there took part 279 teachers from three Andalusian universities of the diverse powers or knowledge's areas. A probability sampling being used for such a selection, of random nature by affixation proportional depending on the different departments that compose every faculty, sending the questionnaire to each of the subjects selected by means of and e-mail to his institutional mail, gathering only the results of the persons who agreed to answer. The obtained results allow to clarify which are the competences that more the university teachers possess opposite to the performance of the tutoring function, likewise, there have been extracted what aspects are capable of improvement. According to sex, age or university affiliation they find small differences in the level of competence training. The professorship of sciences of the education and of the health they are most qualified for the development of the competences. It is possible to come to conclude the need to increase plans and programs directed the formation of the professorship with regard to the tutoring function, one of the principal competences that the new EHEA attaches to the professionals of the university teaching.

Keywords

• educación superior
• universidad
• acción tutorial
• necesidades de formación docente
• espacio europeo de educación superior (eees)
• formación continua del profesorado
• enseñar competencias