The Application of Factor Analysis in Comprehensive Evaluation of Student Achievement

As an important method in multivariate statistics, factor analysis has been used in many fields, but it is less used in education, but the effect is better. In education, there is a need for a rational, comprehensive analysis of student achievement, and factor analysis can achieve this goal. This paper uses the factor analysis method to complete the comprehensive evaluation of the student's performance, introduces the theory, basic concepts and methods of the factor analysis method in detail, and then uses the method to complete the comprehensive evaluation of the student's performance. In factor analysis, we use R to implement and get the output results of factor analysis and then comprehensively analyze and evaluate students' scores according to factor scores. Finally, it compares with the commonly used grade point method to verify the rationality of the factor analysis method and obtains the advantages and disadvantages of the two methods through comparison. The results show that the factor analysis method is reasonable and effective in comprehensively evaluating students' performance and can be used as a method.