General aim of the study is to establish students’ feedback as an effective mechanism of quality assurance in the higher educational institutes of Assam. Present paper has two specific objectives- (a) to study the effect of students’ assessment mechanism on teaching competency and (b) to put recommendations on the improvement of students’ assessment mechanism for quality assurance in higher education. One hypothesis has been put to study the 1st objective that is- students’ assessment mechanism has significant effect on teaching competency at university level. In results, it was not observed and hypothesis was rejected finally.