PERCEPTION OF ACADEMIC, PERSONAL AND PROFESIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STUDENT FROM THE FACULTY OF BIOLOGY, THROUGH THE TUTORING PROGRAM

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.216462411032

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  The Faculty of Biology, aware of the need to offer its students comprehensive attention, adopted the Tutoring Program through the Institutional Tutoring Program of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. The tutorial action requires that the university professor with tutor training has skills specific to the tutorial activity, which differ from the teaching practice that is carried out within the classroom. It implies a commitment to the quality of university teaching, through the individualized attention that a tutor provides to a student or a group of students. To know the performance of the Tutoring Program of the Faculty of Biology, a questionnaire was applied, in the form of a survey, to students enrolled in the degree program in Biology of the Michoacana University of San Nicolás de Hidalgo, with the objective of knowing the perception of students who received attention from the Program tutors, about their academic, personal and professional development, in a school year. From this perspective, within the framework of the accreditation of the degree in Biology, an evaluation was carried out on students enrolled in the tutoring program of the Faculty of Biology. The evaluation consisted of applying a survey regarding the satisfaction that the tutor perceives according to: a) the activities carried out in the tutoring program, b) the benefits derived from their participation in the program and c) the attention to emotional aspects. The research was a qualitative study with a descriptive non-experimental design, through the aforementioned survey, answered by a total of 39 students enrolled in the Tutoring Program. The categories were: I) institution services, II) support in training aspects of the participants and III) attention to emotional aspects. Of the total number of students who responded to this survey, 79% expressed that the Tutoring Program of the Faculty of Biology has allowed them to improve their academic performance, 61.41% of the responses are among the categories of extremely satisfied, 28.57% very satisfied and 9.17% satisfied. Particularly, the level of satisfaction is high in terms of motivation to continue with their studies, the development of values related to physical and mental well-being and the willingness to integrate and commit to their educational process (80.56%). Through the instrument that included three categories and thirteen items, it was determined that the students expressed some degree of satisfaction in their academic, personal and professional development, through the attention received in the Tutoring Program of the Faculty of Biology. In general, it is possible to conclude that the tutorial activity of the Tutoring Program of the Faculty of Biology carried out by its tutors, promoted satisfaction in their respective tutors.