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 Institutional Assessment & Evaluation team, formerly Office of Educational Assessment, with expertise in psychometric analyses, item and test development, large scale survey design, and multi-method approaches to evaluation and assessment.