IASystem™ course evaluation forms have been carefully designed and tested to support instructional improvement, curricular planning, and faculty development.
The IASystem™ form structure allows for customization without compromise of cross-campus global ratings, optional statistical adjustments, and the proprietary IASystem™ Challenge and Engagement Index. Online forms can be modified and customized for an entire institution, specific colleges or departments.
All forms are available for both online and paper delivery.
IASystem™ items and forms are copyrighted with all rights reserved by the University of Washington.
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Form Structure
IASystem™ evaluation forms are composed of different item types to support both formative and summative decision-making, and to capture additional information that assists instructors in interpreting evaluation results.
Summative Items:
IASystem™ evaluation forms include four “global” items that provide a general evaluation of the course and instruction. Because these items are applicable to all courses and appear on all forms, they allow comparisons across programs. This kind of comparison helps administrators meet program review and accreditation requirements and provides them with information for tenure and promotion decisions. Average ratings also can be compared to a specific standard or examined for changes over time. These items are not customizable.
Formative Items:
Most items on IASystem™ forms ask about specific aspects of the class being evaluated. Their purpose is to provide faculty with information about what students think is working well and what could be improved. These items are customizable.
Student Engagement Items:
IASystem™ Student Engagement items provide information on students in the course, workload and expected grade. Some items are used to compute the Challenge and Engagement Index (CEI) and others can be used to correct summative items for bias by computing adjusted medians. These items are not customizable.
Demographic & Comment Items:
IASystem™ Demographic items provide more detail about enrolled students and Comment (open ended) items provides specific, qualitative course feedback from students. These items are customizable.
OPTIONAL – Instructor Added Items:
IASystem™ client institutions can choose to include the ability for instructors to add their own formative and comment questions to institutional course evaluation forms. Ad hoc instructor added items are reported on course level reports, but are not included in institutional-level data reporting.