Open AccessValidity and Reliability of the Student Evaluation of Teaching
Author(s) -
Tan Lay Khong
Publication year - 2014
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2411-2933
DOI - 10.31686/ijier.vol2.iss9.238
Subject(s) - confirmatory factor analysis , exploratory factor analysis , reliability (semiconductor) , psychology , internal consistency , quality (philosophy) , validity , set (abstract data type) , mathematics education , computer science , structural equation modeling , psychometrics , machine learning , clinical psychology , power (physics) , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , programming language
Most universities are using the Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) as an instrument for students to assess a lecturer’s teaching performance. It is an essential instrument to reflect the feedback in enhancing the quality of teaching and learning. The purpose of this paper is to examine the validity and reliability of the SET as a valid instrument in evaluating teaching effectiveness in a private higher education institution in Malaysia. Exploratory Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis have validated all 10 items of SET whereby all items indicated high reliability and internal consistency. A Confirmatory Factor Analysis using AMOS software also confirmed that a single factor model was used to evaluate teaching effectiveness. The single factor model was further validated using 1000 repeated samples of Bootstrap method in AMOS.