ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Assessment, Testing and Applied Measurement
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1629540
Evaluation of teaching performance by university students of social and administrative sciences: a comparative study
Provisionally accepted
- Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Baja California, Mexico
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The purpose of this study is to measure higher education students' perceptions of their instructors' performance, as well as to analyze differences by sex, age, type of degree, and academic stage. To this end, the responses of 1,422 students from a higher education institution in northwestern Mexico who completed the EEDDocente 2023-1 were analyzed. The properties of the instrument's measurement model were verified. In this sense, the original three-factor model was reconfigured by a two-factor solution. The two-factor model explains 68% of the observed variance and has adequate fit indices (x2 = 2661.58, df = 989, p < 0.0, CFI = 0.995, TLI = 0.995, GFI = 0.993, NFI = 0.993, RMSEA = 0.034 [IC 95% = 0.033 - 0.035], SRMR = 0.051). The measurement model was also found to be invariant across the grouping variables. Overall, the items had high mean scores (mean > 3), suggesting that students perceived their teachers as highly effective. Significant differences (p < 0.01) were reported between participants' scores based on their age and academic stage; however, the effect size was low (η2 < 0.10). Finally, the contributions, scope, and limitations of the study are discussed.
Keywords: Evaluation, Teacher, higher education, validity, Internal structure, Factorial invariance
Received: 16 May 2025; Accepted: 08 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Henriquez, Pérez-Morán, Del Cid García and Boroel. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Juan Carlos Pérez-Morán, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Baja California, Mexico
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