Evaluation of First-Year Education Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Abstract

Kobe Tokiwa University witnessed its 1st university reform in 2015. This resulted in the start of a basic education based first-year course from the year 2017. Kobe Tokiwa University constructed the course based on 19 Tokiwa competencies. In order to evaluate the students, who are evaluated by the 20 teachers based on Tokiwa competencies, we constructed a rubric and an evaluation matrix for the first-year course. Already we performed an explorative factor analysis of the evaluation of students by using an evaluation matrix for the 2018 first-year course. The results showed that our evaluation is not based on the Tokiwa competencies. In this research additionally, we performed confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, to understand the relationship among factors. Results show that we must address evaluation of portfolio.