Welcome to SAIS

The Student Assessment of Instruction System (SAIS), a service of the University of Tennessee’s Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, provides for student evaluation of teaching at the University. Formerly known as the Campus Teaching Evaluation Program, or CTEP, SAIS operates by a mandate of the Faculty Senate. The evaluation instruments are based upon those originally developed by the University of Washington.

While SAIS developed as an in-class, scan form procedure, in recent years the option to have students complete the forms on-line has been made available to instructors as well. All SAIS responses both on paper or on line are subject to the Tennessee Open Records Law. This applies to both structured and open-ended responses. Results of the assessment are provided to the instructors as well as published in the Student Government Association’s Tennessee 101.