Teachers’ perspective on upward evaluation in basic education departments in Metro Manila

•Teachers agree that there is a need for a regular upward evaluation for instructional supervisors.•Teachers have a positive attitude towards upward evaluation.•Teachers will participate in an actual upward evaluation scheme because it will benefit both instructional supervisors and teachers.

Evaluation is essential in assessing different areas of performance especially in educational institutions. Conversely, upward evaluation is emerging in the Philippine educational institutions. However, issues concerning upward evaluations hinder its regular implementation. This study ascertained the impact between and among instructional supervisory behavior, teachers’ trust to instructional supervisors, teachers’ emotional exhaustion, need to evaluate and teachers’ want to have an upward evaluation. This also found teachers’ viewpoint of a bottom-up design of evaluation. With 278 teacher respondents, the multi-aspect survey questionnaires were utilized. This study employed structural equation modelling. Path analysis was also conducted to examine simultaneous relationships and direct effect among latent variables at 0.05 level of significance. This study provides implications to implementation of evaluations in educational institutions.