La percepción de la motivación y satisfacción de la tutoría recibida en estudios de posgrado

The objective of this article is to study the perception that graduate students have of the thesis supervisor (tutor) during his/her graduate studies. Three Master programs were considered in the study to identify factors that influence motivation and satisfaction towards the work made by the thesis advisor and being able to identify possible improvement areas in benefit of graduate studies. This is a descriptive and transversal study with information collected from 60 graduate students. The results show that graduate students are satisfied with the guide provided by their thesis advisors, feeling an adequate emotional connection, feedback, motivation and words of encouragement from the advisors. However, it was found that the lack of willingness by the students to continue with the thesis is an element causing that a significant percentage have not obtained the master degree. Intervention strategies such as tracing academic careers and the implementation of thesis workshop are proposed.