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Our Approach

Assessment Focus

Since 1974 the University of Washington has provided post-secondary institutions with critical quantitative and qualitative information to improve teaching and learning.

Proven Instruments

By licensing IASystem™ your institution has access to the proprietary evaluation forms created by our research and assessment staff. We offer a collection of tested instruments to assess diverse instructional approaches and educational outcomes.

Institutional Norms

IASystem™ provides higher-level analyses of institutional data to maximize the value and validity of evaluation results. Institution-specific reliability estimates define guidelines for decision-making; item-level deciles support cross-class comparisons; and regression analyses allow customized correction for known biases such as expected grade and class size.

Assessment Practitioners

IASystem™ is a service backed by the University of Washington's Office of Educational Assessment team with expertise in psychometric analyses, item and test development, large scale survey design, and multi-method approaches to evaluation and assessment.

Security & System Requirements

IASystem™ is a fully web-based course evaluation application and uses a web browser as the user interface. Clients who license our turnkey SaaS solution do not need to install any server software.

Web-browser Requirements

IASystem™ can be accessed with any of the following browsers with JavaScript enabled:

Microsoft Internet Explorer version 8.0 or higher
Mozilla Firefox version 10 or higher
Apple Safari version 5 or higher
Google Chrome version 17 or higher

Recommended Software

The following client software application is recommended to access additional features:

Adobe Acrobat Reader version 7 or higher is required to open documents exported from IASystem™

Security

Encrypted communications

IASystem™ uses HTTPS secure communications protocol to transfer information between our system and the user’s browser.
Role-based permissions

User menus display only the applications and pages authorized for each person. Data items that are not authorized for a user will not be displayed on forms or reports.
Server-side processing

With IASystem™ calculations, validations, and reports are all processed on the server and not on the user’s computer or in a web browser.