How to advance in the university tutoring? Action strategies: students have to word

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ABSTRACT

University current regulations organize students´ right to receive orientation during their learning process in order to contribute their integral development. Therefore tutoring becomes a requirement to university community, although this is no guarantee of a right development. This paper is meant to deepen in its implementation from the perception of Murcia University´s Education students, and analyzing strengths and weakness associated to that process. An ad hoc questionnaire is designed: Using and Satisfaction on University Tutoring (Cuestionario de Utilización y Satisfacción sobre Tutoría Universitaria- CUSTU), applied to 976 students during the year 2010/2011. The results recognise as the leading strength the fact that tutoring improves the personalization of the learning process and as key weakness its meagre development, as a consequence of this. The improvement proposal most issued is to increase face-to-face tutoring. This and other issues verify the results of other analyses and qualify the fact that tutoring without commitment, planification, coordination, training, resources and acknowledgment will always be an institutional objective to reach and a false chimera.