FACTORS INVOLVED IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN A POST-PANDEMIC CONTEXT

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze different factors involved in higher education, specifically in three aspects: educational, technological, and economic. To this end, a segmentation of the variables was carried out based on the survey carried out on the students of the Faculty of Agricultural Economics of the Agrarian University of Ecuador (UAE) in its three campuses Milagro, El Triunfo and Guayaquil. The multivalent normality assumption was applied using the factorial model and Varimax rotation to improve the interpretation of the factors. The results evidenced in the educational aspect, three factors that explain the shared variance between the variables studied. These factors were related to teacher quality, active student participation in the classroom, and learning in virtual classes. In the technological aspect, two factors were extracted that represent the relationship between the variables related to access to the internet, electronic devices and the use of the laboratory to reinforce learning. While the economic aspect, a significant correlation was shown between the variables of expenditures on technology and education and the monthly income of the household. After extracting two factors that explain the variance in variables related to household income and expenses.