Validation of a questionnaire to interaction assessment in university teaching

Although interaction in the teaching learning process is a widely researched phenomenon, there are no instruments to measure it at the university level. With this in mind, this article aims to validate the questionnaire "Instrument for Measuring Interaction in Higher Education (IMIHE)", which consists of 35 Likert-type items. The validation has been carried out with a sample of 2,170 university students of different Official Degrees and Masters of all academic years in a University in the north of Spain According to our results, the questionnaire has shown good properties and good reliability measures in seven key factors. It can be concluded that the IMIHE is a tool that contributes to initiate and improve the evaluation of interaction processes in university teaching. We consider it to be a useful instrument both for faculty, as a self-assessment tool, and for universities as a whole as a general diagnostic tool to foster interaction in their classrooms.