{"title":"Perceptions of Peer Tutoring at a University in Chile","authors":"S. Zapata","doi":"10.11144/JAVERIANA.M12-25.PPTU","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this Action Research study is to explore students' perceptions of their experience in an Academic Support Program[i] (ASP) implemented in a Chilean university to align students' lack of competencies to the minimum required to be able to succeed. Focus groups were held with 21 participants who revealed that the ASP increased their self-confidence and academic achievement. However, students' level of awareness regarding the benefits of the ASP needs to be improved to promote their participation. The findings will generate an action plan to improve students' learning outcomes and well-being. [i] Academic Support Program","PeriodicalId":44037,"journal":{"name":"Magis-Revista Internacional de Investigacion en Educacion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.11144/JAVERIANA.M12-25.PPTU","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Magis-Revista Internacional de Investigacion en Educacion","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.11144/JAVERIANA.M12-25.PPTU","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The purpose of this Action Research study is to explore students' perceptions of their experience in an Academic Support Program[i] (ASP) implemented in a Chilean university to align students' lack of competencies to the minimum required to be able to succeed. Focus groups were held with 21 participants who revealed that the ASP increased their self-confidence and academic achievement. However, students' level of awareness regarding the benefits of the ASP needs to be improved to promote their participation. The findings will generate an action plan to improve students' learning outcomes and well-being. [i] Academic Support Program
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The journal takes as an essential part the promotion of the good practices of educational investigation in the country and in the region, by means of the presentation and analysis of epistemologies, perspectives and methodological designs, reflections theoretical and results of excellent investigations in the education. It focuses its different declarations in the good teaching, didactic practices and of educational management, so much the way in which these practices are a declaration of integral formation of those who carry out them, they face them and study them, as the disposition of the pupil to achieve its integral formation and its meeting with himself itself propitiated by the accompaniment of the teacher across the dialogue. magis, International Journal of Research in Education, besides being a space for discussion on the prospects of research in education and a way to disseminate results and research approaches, is conceived as an academic space of mediation in the qualification of the research capital of the region. magis is a biannual digital publication with a rejection rate of 80%.
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