Weighting factor in the venezuelan university

Abstract

The research aims to create a weighting factors model for universities in Venezuela, based on the self-assessment for academic programs accreditation in Colombia, from the positivist paradigm, quantitative method, field type design, framed in a feasible project; it involves professors, administrators, students, representatives of the productive sector and graduates of the institution.  Results show that the community of the National Experimental University of Táchira gives critical importance to research, professors and students factors. The article describes the process from the groups and strata participants’ formation to the methods for validation of instruments, processing and analysis of results.