Academic tutoring focused on assessment: analysis of needs from the perspective of students and teachers

Abstract

The research presented is done within a line of innovation in University counselling for the development of academic tutoring. The study deals with an analysis of needs, allowing the establishment of a pilot plan for the development, change and improvement of tutorial practices in the universities of the Iberus Campus; under the demand in the new degrees, for a tutorial related to the personal and professional project of the student. The analysis of needs is performed by applying a design of exploratory character, through an ad hoc questionnaire, a sample of 423 students and 202 teachers from the University of Zaragoza. The questionnaire and the results are validated through five focus groups conducted in the Universities of the Basque Country and La Rioja. The main results are about three research questions: 1) Assessment in tutorial practices: the high potential of the assessment as a mediator for the development, change and improvement of tutorial practices is confirmed. (2) The emerging needs of the academic experiences of students and teachers: the change proposed deals with the dyad teacher-subject. (3) The characterization of the ideal tutoring: students and teachers doubt, in the absence of experiential references in innovative tutorial practices. The main conclusions are: a) the protagonist role of the teacher is reinforced to bring about change; and (b) students and teachers share expectations about the change towards a personal project-oriented academic tutoring.

Keywords

• orientación
• innovación
• tutoría
• evaluación
• encuesta
• necesidades educativas