Favorire il successo accademico con il Tutorato Formativo. L'esperienza del Corso di Laurea in Scienze Sociologiche dell'Università di Padova

The paper presents the Tutorato Formativo Programme, experimented among the academic years 2014/15 and 2016/17 in certain three-year bachelor's degree courses at the University of Padua. It is an adaptation of the Spanish model of Tutoría formativa de carrera (Álvarez-Pérez, 2002; Da Re et al., 2016) and it consists of a program of tutoring, peer tutoring and service tutoring for newcomers with the aim of: facilitating transition to the university context, preventing drop-out, promoting academic success and empowerment of students, enhancing soft skills. In this contribution, we present the hypotheses, the organization and the main results - both in terms of overall satisfaction related to the objectives - with reference to the degree of Sociological Sciences, which involved, during the three-year period, the participation of about 420 students, 9 teachers and 34 tutor students.