Factors related to the quality of higher education in Colombia

Abstract

This research analyzes the factors of the student's environment such as social status, age and the number of hours dedicated to work that can influence the result of the Saber Pro tests of the Colombian Institute for the Promotion of Higher Education [IFCES] in the generic competences: Critical Reading, Written Communication and Quantitative Reasoning in the students of the Business Administration program. The research is quantitative with a non-experimental longitudinal design. The main statistical analysis techniques used are: Measures of central tendency, variance and linear regression. The results indicate that there is not a strong correlation between the stratum, the hours dedicated to work, age and the results in the generic competences previously described. However, the variable that best explains the variability of the results in generic competences is age.

Keywords

• saber pro tests
• generic competences
• critical reading
• written communication
• quantitative reasoning