The Mid Superior Education (EMS) in Mexico is an educative level with an important impact in the life of those who have the opportunity to live that experience, in social, economic, political and cultural aspects. At the moment this subsystem is in a process of transformation that implies great challenges for the educative and administrative authorities and, as well as a great responsibility for the teachers who daily coexist with the young students. One of the preoccupations of change sought by the EMS has to do with the teaching and learning processes, and the possibilities of their evaluation. The processes of evaluating the teaching performance are relevant thanks to the potential improvement of the activity, with greater urgency in the context of the reform that proposes a substantial change on the teachers’ and students’ profile. This work represents an approach the evaluation practices that are developed in different institutions from the subsystem; in the first part the basic characteristics of the EMS and the reform, as well as the most outstanding characteristics of the teaching staff are described. Then, an exploration on teaching evaluation is made departuing from the analysis of some current questionnaires of student opinion.

Evaluation, teaching, mid-higher education, questionnaires, México.