Assessing university guidance and tutoring in higher education: Validating a questionnaire on Ecuadorian students.

This study was intended to explore and confirm the factorial structure and to analyze the psychometric properties of an instrument for university guidance and tutoring, apply it, and detect differences between sociodemographic variables. A total of 1,048 students from five universities in the provin...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	María Isabel Amor, Kasandra Vanessa Saldarriaga Villamil, Irene Dios
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/0d15fc41977946f5bd3c66bb22265ee2
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:0d15fc41977946f5bd3c66bb22265ee2
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0d15fc41977946f5bd3c66bb22265ee22021-12-02T20:10:37ZAssessing university guidance and tutoring in higher education: Validating a questionnaire on Ecuadorian students.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0253400https://doaj.org/article/0d15fc41977946f5bd3c66bb22265ee22021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253400https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203This study was intended to explore and confirm the factorial structure and to analyze the psychometric properties of an instrument for university guidance and tutoring, apply it, and detect differences between sociodemographic variables. A total of 1,048 students from five universities in the province of Manabi (Ecuador) participated. The study was divided into two phases with differentiated samples. An exploratory phase, made up of 200 subjects (19.1%), and another confirmatory phase, made up of 848 (80.9%), where the questionnaire was also applied. The results supported the three-factor structure of the instrument called "Questionnaire for the Assessment of Guidance and Tutoring in Higher Education" (Q-AGT), with of a total of 21 items. The indices of goodness of fit, reliability and internal consistency of the model were considered satisfactory. The application of the questionnaire did not show statistically significant differences in the assessment of university guidance and tutoring between men and women, with a high value given by both sexes to the importance of tutoring, the demands and the competences of the teaching staff in the university. The differences were mainly found between universities and branches of knowledge. Among the main conclusions, what stands out is the achievement of a valid and reliable instrument to measure the development of guidance and tutoring in Latin American universities. This contributes to the assessment of university guidance and tutoring as a strategy for the integral development of the student- personally, academically and professionally- and as a possible protective factor against academic dropout.María Isabel AmorKasandra Vanessa Saldarriaga VillamilIrene DiosPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 6, p e0253400 (2021)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	Medicine R Science Q
spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q María Isabel Amor Kasandra Vanessa Saldarriaga Villamil Irene Dios Assessing university guidance and tutoring in higher education: Validating a questionnaire on Ecuadorian students.
description	This study was intended to explore and confirm the factorial structure and to analyze the psychometric properties of an instrument for university guidance and tutoring, apply it, and detect differences between sociodemographic variables. A total of 1,048 students from five universities in the province of Manabi (Ecuador) participated. The study was divided into two phases with differentiated samples. An exploratory phase, made up of 200 subjects (19.1%), and another confirmatory phase, made up of 848 (80.9%), where the questionnaire was also applied. The results supported the three-factor structure of the instrument called "Questionnaire for the Assessment of Guidance and Tutoring in Higher Education" (Q-AGT), with of a total of 21 items. The indices of goodness of fit, reliability and internal consistency of the model were considered satisfactory. The application of the questionnaire did not show statistically significant differences in the assessment of university guidance and tutoring between men and women, with a high value given by both sexes to the importance of tutoring, the demands and the competences of the teaching staff in the university. The differences were mainly found between universities and branches of knowledge. Among the main conclusions, what stands out is the achievement of a valid and reliable instrument to measure the development of guidance and tutoring in Latin American universities. This contributes to the assessment of university guidance and tutoring as a strategy for the integral development of the student- personally, academically and professionally- and as a possible protective factor against academic dropout.
format	article
author	María Isabel Amor Kasandra Vanessa Saldarriaga Villamil Irene Dios
author_facet	María Isabel Amor Kasandra Vanessa Saldarriaga Villamil Irene Dios
author_sort	María Isabel Amor
title	Assessing university guidance and tutoring in higher education: Validating a questionnaire on Ecuadorian students.
title_short	Assessing university guidance and tutoring in higher education: Validating a questionnaire on Ecuadorian students.
title_full	Assessing university guidance and tutoring in higher education: Validating a questionnaire on Ecuadorian students.
title_fullStr	Assessing university guidance and tutoring in higher education: Validating a questionnaire on Ecuadorian students.
title_full_unstemmed	Assessing university guidance and tutoring in higher education: Validating a questionnaire on Ecuadorian students.
title_sort	assessing university guidance and tutoring in higher education: validating a questionnaire on ecuadorian students.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/0d15fc41977946f5bd3c66bb22265ee2
work_keys_str_mv	AT mariaisabelamor assessinguniversityguidanceandtutoringinhighereducationvalidatingaquestionnaireonecuadorianstudents AT kasandravanessasaldarriagavillamil assessinguniversityguidanceandtutoringinhighereducationvalidatingaquestionnaireonecuadorianstudents AT irenedios assessinguniversityguidanceandtutoringinhighereducationvalidatingaquestionnaireonecuadorianstudents
_version_	1718374983701364736

Assessing university guidance and tutoring in higher education: Validating a questionnaire on Ecuadorian students.

Ejemplares similares