Performance management, as a scientific assessment method, has achieved excellent effects in economic domain, which, however, is still in exploration stage in the application of universities. Performance evaluation theory in performance management provides a new research perspective for performance evaluation of discipline construction in universities. Starting from the concept of discipline and performance, this essay further deduces the concept of performance evaluation of discipline construction, analyses the content as well as the related person in performance evaluation of discipline construction, and elaborates the principles that should be followed in performance evaluation of discipline construction and their impacts.