Model Decision applied in the Evaluation and Accreditation of Degree Careers

Abstract

Higher Education in Ecuador entered a stage of changes driven by the regulations that govern the system as of  2008, such situation has required universities and polytechnical schools to start continuous improvement processes based on periodic self-assessments taking as reference different models Of quality and in particular that issued by the Council of Evaluation, Accreditation and Quality Assurance, CEAACES and whose purpose is to accredit as well as their careers. The establishment of the evidence that justifies the quality indicator, as well as the weight given to each is the substantial part of the self- evaluation process that the institutions carry out and it is necessary to have a tool that minimizes subjectivity and generates Results that in principle can be good but that in the end do not reach for the external evaluation; For which it has been made a tour of different concepts, regulations and processes that are applied in Ecuador for the evaluation of careers based on a generic model establishing a procedure that has been used to determine the weights of the indicators and proposes some lines Of future work.