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What is Alps?

Alps provides KS4 and KS5 performance analysis and tracking for schools and groups through our platforms Connect and Summit.

Our analysis is simple, easy to use, and effective. Progress is measured against our own national, aspirational benchmarks to ensure all students achieve their potential.


Educational Impact

improve attainment
89%
improve school processes
88%
improve teaching efficiency
83%

Additional evidence

Oct 2020

Penistone Grammar School, Barnsley, UK

Oct 2020

The Purbeck School, Dorset, UK

Oct 2020

Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School , Derbyshire, UK

Oct 2020

Jumeirah College, Dubai, UAE

Oct 2020

Chelsea Academy, London, UK

Oct 2020

Rickmansworth School, Hertfordshire, UK

Oct 2020

Limavady Grammar School, Northern Ireland, UK

Oct 2020

Cardiff High School, Cardiff, UK

Feb 2023

Anthem Schools Trust, Reading, UK

CompanyBusiness Name: Alps
HQ Location: United Kingdom
Founded: 2001
Age Range14-16, 17-18
FeaturesIn-year TrackingStudent-led AnalysisStudent, Subject, Whole School And Group AnalysisQuickly Spot Areas For ImprovementHighlight Strengths And Share Good PracticeImprove Outcomes With Aspirational Target SettingSwift, Visual AnalysisBenchmarking Against National Data SetsCommon Language For ProgressSend, Eal And Other FiltersModel Improvement With What-if? ToolCat4 Support
LanguagesEnglish
AccessibilityFew to no features
PoliciesTerms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR
RequirementsInternet - High Bandwidth
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Within a couple of hours

TrainingIn PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos

Complete Support and Onboarding We make using Alps easy. Our highly-rated training and support includes: - Allocated Alps Account Manager - Dedicated phone and email support all-year-round with our experienced team - Access to a regularly updated knowledge base - Onboarding for new schools and colleges - Data set up session - Intro to Connect Interactive session The Alps Champions Programme Your data is only the first step. We have excellent practical resources to help you to embed Alps to make a difference to your student outcomes. The starting point is our Alps Champion handbook – a digital guide with all you need to launch and use Alps. - Free live and recorded webinars - Regular blogs, briefing papers and newsletters - Checklists for teachers, pastoral and senior leaders - Quick videos and training guides

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School must create the account.

TagsData AnalysisKS4 and KS5 performance insightsperformance insightsstudent progressKS5KS4

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Subscription pricing is available on 1, 2, and 3 Year plans. Pricing is split into simple tiers based on the size of your KS5 cohort, with KS4 analysis available at a fixed cost. Group platform pricing is also available.

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Trevor Lawn

Headteacher

Alec Hunter Academy, England

Used Alps monthly for 3-4 years

Aug 2024

We love using ALPS at Alec Hunter. It is well understood by senior and middle leaders, it demonstrates clearly what each student should be expected to achieve and challenge is built in at an appropriate level. The data that we get from ALPS really helps us to improve as a school.

Reply from Alps:Hi Trevor, Thank you for taking the time to leave us such a fantastic review, we really appreciate it and we are so pleased to read that your experience with Alps has been such a positive one, particularly around the school's use of data. Best wishes, All the team at Alps
Trevor Lawn found Alps:
  • Slightly improves teaching efficiency
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Middle Leaders have a better understanding of what 'success' looks like in terms of progress rather than attainment. The simplicity of the ALPS grading system, based on the national dataset and taking account of prior attainment as the baseline, helps those leaders who are less conversant with data to feel confident that they understand the standard expected. The 'what if' function is absolutely invaluable in demonstrating how the grading will shift upwards if they are able to move certain students up by a grade or two.
  • Moderately improves attainment
    Teachers can target their support due to having a better grasp of what each individual should be expected to achieve as a minimum and this in turn drives up attainment.
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Craig Wade

Adviser for Curriculum

Central South Consortium Joint Education Service, Wales

Used Alps monthly for 7–12 months

Jul 2024

Outstanding pupil progress and monitoring approach

Reply from Alps:Hi Craig, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review. We are so pleased that our platform is having a positive impact on pupil progress and monitoring. Best wishes, the Alps Team.
Craig Wade found Alps:
  • Significantly improves teaching efficiency
    Alps allows you to identify specifically teaching groups and individual learners and target support and interventions
  • Significantly improves school processes
    coherent and consistent approach to targeting and identifying pupil underperformance
  • Significantly improves attainment
    there are a significant number of easy to use features that allow you to identify under attainment and model against this to identify where to to target support
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John Firth

Head of Chemistry

Used Alps monthly for 5 years+

Jul 2024

Alps has revolutionised the tracking of student performance throughout the year. It also allows judgements to be made compared to other schools Nationally. It is a powerful tool for self evaluation improvement planning.

Reply from Alps:Hi John, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review. We are so pleased that our platform is having a positive impact on the the way you track student performance. Best Wishes, the Alps Team.
John Firth found Alps:
  • Significantly improves teaching efficiency
    Alps allows me to track the progress of learners in real time throughout the academic year. This allows me to spot underperforming students and target extra support.
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Alps makes it easy to identify good practice across the department as well as areas for development.
  • Significantly improves attainment
    I find the what if tool allows me to know which students to target for additional support to raise outcomes.
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Clare Scanlon

Education Improvement Service Manager

Conwy County Borough Council, Wales

Used Alps occasionally for 5 years+

Jul 2024

Clarity of data, ability to manipulate data to easily consider groups of learners etc. Evolution of system to respond to need/change

Reply from Alps:Hi Clare, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review. We're so pleased to hear that you enjoy using our platform, particularly around the ability to shape the data in a way that works for you. Best wishes, All the team at Alps
Clare Scanlon found Alps:
  • Moderately improves teaching efficiency
  • Slightly improves school processes
    I don't work in a school so can't provide an evidence based response
  • Moderately improves attainment
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Ed MacLeod

Vice Principal

Beal High School, England

Used Alps daily for 5 years+

Jul 2024

Fantastic product and service

Reply from Alps:Hi Ed, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review. We're so pleased to hear that our platform has helped to spark positive dialogue with students and parents! Best wishes, All the team at Alps
Ed MacLeod found Alps:
  • Significantly improves teaching efficiency
    Data-driven monitoring and tracking, high aspirations for all, positive dialogue with students and parents
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Simple, clear, user-friendly dashboard and processes
  • Significantly improves attainment
    improving value added scores year on year
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Mr Elfed T Morris

Gwynedd and Anglesey Post-16 Education Consortium Coordinator.

Gwynedd and Anglesey Post-16 Education Consortium, Wales

Used Alps monthly for 5 years+

Jul 2024

Excellent support and training services provided by ALPS staff as part of the ALPS package.

Reply from Alps:Hi Elfed, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review, we really appreciate it. We're so pleased to hear that you rate our training services in particular so highly, we will pass this feedback on to our Training team! Best wishes, All the team at Alps
Mr Elfed T Morris found Alps:
  • Significantly improves teaching efficiency
    From an LEA Perspective: Recognising good practice and identifying areas for improvement.
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Recognising good practice and identifying areas for improvement. Tracking learner performance and ensuring learners reach or surpass their target grades.
  • Significantly improves attainment
    Tracking learner performance and ensuring learners reach or surpass their target grades. To ensure that individual establishments achieve the desired level of learner attainment.
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Lucy Bunce

Assistant Headteacher

Y Pant Comprehensive School, Wales

Used Alps weekly for 5 years+

Jun 2024

ALPS is great for looking at individual and department level data - and whole year group. We can see which students are not achieving targets across different subject areas. I would really like to see an overall summary of where the school is against Welsh performance measures as I have to put data into a separate spreadsheet in order to do this.

Reply from Alps:Hi Lucy, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review. We are so pleased to hear that our platform has had such a positive impact. Thank you for your suggestion, too, on features you'd like to see within the platform itself, we will share this feedback with our Customer Success Team. We wish you every success for the future. Best wishes, All the team at Alps
Lucy Bunce found Alps:
  • Moderately improves teaching efficiency
    Identify which students to focus on for intervention when looking to raise overall attainment
  • Moderately improves school processes
    Deciding which students should be given additional study sessions
  • Moderately improves attainment
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Ceri Garlant

Deputy Headteacher

Whitchurch High School, Wales

Used Alps monthly for 5 years+

May 2024

ALPs has been very powerful as a tool to support the effective analysis of value added data at all levels within school.

Reply from Alps:Hi Ceri, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review. We are so pleased to hear the positive impact that our platform has had for your school; particularly around pupil progress and the 'What If' analysis. We wish you every success for the future! Best wishes, All the team at Alps
Ceri Garlant found Alps:
  • Moderately improves teaching efficiency
    We use ALPs after each progress check to identify whole school those subject areas where pupil progress is a concern. This supports senior leaders in challenging and supporting middle leaders as part of a cycle of standards meetings and also helps middle leaders to identify strengths and areas needing development at subject level. The class analysis tool is particularly useful, as is the analysis for groups of learners.
  • Significantly improves school processes
    ALPs supports our self evaluation processes both at whole school level and faculty level. It provide robust and honest value added analysis that we can use to identify what practices are working well and areas which need development.
  • Significantly improves attainment
    The 'what if' analysis is perfect for use by teaching colleagues and faculty leaders for identifying which individual students will have the greatest impact on outcomes if intervention is put in place. The analysis also allows us as a school and within faculties to identify which groups of learners may not be making the expected progress.
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Amy Hornblow

Head of Sixth Form

Llanishen High School, Wales

Used Alps monthly for 5 years+

May 2024

All staff this year have said how much they like it, although I don't think they use the site themselves, just what the data manager produces.

Reply from Alps:Hi Amy, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review. We're so pleased to hear that our platform is already starting to make an impact; particularly for your data manager and the information they are able to relay to wider teams. We wish you every success for the future. Best wishes, All the team at Alps
Amy Hornblow found Alps:
  • Moderately improves teaching efficiency
    Extra sessions for those who are on grade borders. Teachers can see how students in their subject compare to other subjects and address any inconsistencies. Teachers use "what if" functions to look at impact on their results as a whole and then put measures in place
  • Moderately improves school processes
    Our data manager now gives us all data drop information in one colour coded spreadsheet. This helps to inform students target setting and interviews with form tutors/HOY/parents
  • Slightly improves attainment
    I am only neutral as we have only started using it more consistently this year across all subjects through our data manager.
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Beth Willis

PE Teacher/Dep Dir Sixth Form

Radyr Comprehensive School, Wales

Used Alps monthly for 3-4 years

Apr 2024

ALPS has allowed us to easily monitor and track pupil progress with fantastic support

Reply from Alps:Hi Beth, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review. We're especially pleased to see that you rate our support so highly, our Customer Support Team will be delighted. Best wishes, All the team at Alps
Beth Willis found Alps:
  • Significantly improves teaching efficiency
    Able to adapt differetiation and monitor/track pupils
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Tracking and monitoring pupils
  • Significantly improves attainment
    Targeted interventions
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Mark Wagner

Head of Mathematics

Used Alps monthly for 5 years+

Apr 2024

Ease of use and accuracy in analysis has meant that ALPS is a key driver of both our self evaluation processes and development plan formulation.

Reply from Alps:Hi Mark, Thank you so much for taking the time to share a review. We're so pleased to hear that Alps has played an integral part in improving outcomes for KS4 and KS5; we wish you every continued success for the future. Best wishes, All the team at Alps
Mark Wagner found Alps:
  • Significantly improves teaching efficiency
    ALPS is a fantastic tool for providing my staff and I with the key analysis we need to pinpoint areas of strength and development, therefore giving us more time to develop pedagogy and strategy to target these areas.
  • Significantly improves school processes
    ALPS has been incredibly important in my quality assurance processes as head of faculty. It allows my staff to take ownership of the performance of their classes and drives improvement in outcomes.
  • Significantly improves attainment
    Up to date analysis using regular internal data drops let me see how whole cohort and, crucially, specific groups of learners are performing. This drives intervention and has seen improvement in outcomes at both key stage 4 and 5.
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Dominic Pinto

Principal

Chapeltown Academy, England

Used Alps weekly for 5 years+

Apr 2024

A simple and effective value added system that allows teachers and leaders to get to the heart of student progress and achievement.

Reply from Alps:Hi Dominic, Thank you so much for taking the time to share your wonderful review. We are so pleased that Alps has had such a positive impact for your students, teachers and leaders. Best wishes, All the team at Alps
Dominic Pinto found Alps:
  • Significantly improves teaching efficiency
    Forensic analysis of individual students and student groups.
  • Significantly improves school processes
    It has become the basis of our quality assurance and school improvement process.
  • Significantly improves attainment
    It allows teachers to really consider their practice and how they can incrementally improve student grades.
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Simon Davies

Head

Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bryn Tawe, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Used Alps weekly for 7–12 months

Apr 2024

The flexibility the system provides, the immediate analysis allowing easier intervention, national subject comparisons, ease of use

Reply from Alps:Hi Simon, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review. We are so pleased to hear that you have found our platform to be so flexible and easy to use. Best wishes, All the Team at Alps
Simon Davies found Alps:
  • Significantly improves teaching efficiency
    Ability to target important groups of pupils and individuals to be able to plan their learning better
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Allowed us to track pupil progress more consistently with clear analysis provided to be able to intervene on whole school, department and individual level quickly and effectively
  • Significantly improves attainment
    There are clear examples of improved progress during our comparisons of data drops that will, hopefully, come through with exam outcomes
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Sarah Smith

Assistant Head (Head of Sixth Form)

The Bishop of Llandaff CiW High School, Wales

Used Alps daily for 1-2 years

Mar 2024

An excellent tool to analyse student performance, which is user-friendly, accurate and extremely helpful in contributing to improved student outcomes!

Reply from Alps:Hi Sarah, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us such a great review. We are so pleased to hear that Alps is helping to improve your student outcomes. Best wishes, All the team at Alps
Sarah Smith found Alps:
  • Moderately improves teaching efficiency
    Teachers are able to target those underperforming in their subject by liaising with other staff where students are meeting/exceeding targets
  • Significantly improves school processes
    It enables middle leaders to take greater ownership of their data enabling more efficient and accurate analysis
  • Significantly improves attainment
    Our KM students make significant improvement when targeted with personalised interventions following Alps analysis
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Rob Jones

Director of Sixth Form

Used Alps daily for 1-2 years

Feb 2024

Alps has aided new processes in our tracking in sixth form to be more robust. The data is readily available, with a wealth of useful filters to target individual groups of students.

Reply from Alps:Hi Rob, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us such a great review. We're always so pleased to hear when Alps is being used to drive change, and that the platform is allowing data to be used in such a powerful way! Best wishes, All the team at Alps
Rob Jones found Alps:
  • Significantly improves teaching efficiency
    Alps has allowed us to put tailored mentoring into place for students so that they feel more supported. It has significantly improved our current retention figures.
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Staff have more data to discuss in departments so that mentoring is more targeted.
  • Significantly improves attainment
    Pupils are more involved in their own progress, by being made aware of MEG's and how to improve.
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Geraint Lewis

Principal Improvment Partner Cardiff Secondary and Special schools

Central South Consortium Joint Education Service, Wales

Used Alps occasionally for 5 years+

Feb 2024

A very useful school and subject improvement tool that could be further enhanced by including generation of Wales Interim Performance Measures.

Reply from Alps:Hi Geraint, Thank you for taking the time to leave us such a great review; and for the feedback for future enhancements, we will share this insight with our Product Development team. Best wishes, All the team at Alps
Geraint Lewis found Alps:
  • Moderately improves teaching efficiency
    Departments have used ALPS Connect to analyse pupil groups' performance in-year and and at end of qualifications to inform discussion and sharing of teaching and learning practices.
  • Moderately improves school processes
    Use of minimum expected grades during pupil mentoring sessions has resulted in the use of aspirational target setting owned by the learner.
  • Moderately improves attainment
    Departments have been able to analyse patterns of performance and put in place interventions to improve attainment.
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Gareth Lanagan

Corporate Manager for School Improvement

Ceredigion County Council, Wales

Used Alps monthly for 5 years+

Feb 2024

I see as an integral part of the school improvement process

Reply from Alps:Hi Gareth, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review; we're so pleased to hear that Alps has become such an integral part of your School Improvement process. Best wishes, All the team at Alps
Gareth Lanagan found Alps:
  • Moderately improves teaching efficiency
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Helps us understand how all learners are doing as opposed to raw results
  • Significantly improves attainment
    Use the data in year to target interventions for learners
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Catrin Walters

Assistant Headteacher

Ysgol Gymraeg Bro Morgannwg, Wales

Used Alps weekly for 4-6 months

Dec 2023

It’s ability to compare similar students in each subject across the country provides us with an excellent tool for monitoring our students’ progress.

Reply from Alps:Thank you for your lovely review Catrin.
Catrin Walters found Alps:
  • Moderately improves teaching efficiency
    Enables leaders to identify students who are underachieving and provide tailored support.
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Provides a quick and effective method of monitoring student progress, which feeds into the school mentoring and student support plan.
  • Significantly improves attainment
    Allows teachers to identify and provide support to students who are underachieving early in the year, leading to improved attainment.
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Michael

Chair of Network

Bridgend Welsh Baccalaureate Network, Wales

Used Alps monthly for 5 years+

Dec 2023

It has such a lot to offer to help drive improvement.

Reply from Alps:Thank you for your lovely review Michael.
Michael found Alps:
  • Significantly improves teaching efficiency
    To identify learners who need minimal action to improve.
  • Significantly improves school processes
    When identifying underperformance by attendance.
  • Significantly improves attainment
    It allows learner interviews to identify specific areas that can be improved with minimal effort.
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Carys Pritchard

Principal Improvement Partner

Central South Consortium Joint Education Service, Wales

Used Alps occasionally for 3-4 years

Nov 2023

Alps is a valuable tool to track and support the progress of learners in schools. It provides schools with comprehensive information to support their self-evaluation and monitoring activities.

Reply from Alps:Thank you for your lovely review Carys.
Carys Pritchard found Alps:
  • Significantly improves teaching efficiency
    Provides valuable information about the progress of specific groups of learners. This information can then be used to plan appropriate interventions and differentiation.
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Provides valuable and comprehensive information about the progress of learners that supports self-evaluation and monitoring processes well.
  • Significantly improves attainment
    The tools available support careful tracking of individual and groups of pupils. When used effectively, schools use this data to influence their planning and teaching in order to raise standards of specific groups of learners.
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SF

Post 16 lead

EAS regional consortia, Wales

Used Alps occasionally for 5 years+

Nov 2023

Its a standardised approach which enables like for like comparisons.

Reply from Alps:Thank you for your lovely review!
SF found Alps:
  • Slightly improves teaching efficiency
    It supports schools to realise the strengths and areas for development across the curriculum
  • Slightly improves school processes
    Enables Alps to be used as a feature of self evaluation and school development planning
  • Slightly improves attainment
    Enables schools to share practice with regional, collated Alps reports providing an overview of all schools attainment across a region enabling brokering of support and partnership working
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Rowan Pearson

Vice Principal (Academic)

Phoenix Academy, England

Used Alps weekly for 1-2 years

Nov 2023

Reply from Alps:Thank you for your lovely review Rowan. It's amazing to hear that Alps is positively impacting the students at Phoenix Academy and that you have seen huge improvements in your exams analysis process.
Rowan Pearson found Alps:
  • Moderately improves teaching efficiency
    Alps allows us to quickly and meaningfully identify students or classes who may need additional support. This means we can make the most of our limited capacity to boost student progress.
  • Significantly improves school processes
    We have seen huge improvements in our exams analysis processes since using Alps. In particular, the focus on continual improvement through timely and meaningful professional conversations means that teachers and HODs feel well-supported to drive improvement in their own classes and subjects.
  • Significantly improves attainment
    Since using Alps, we have been able to greatly improve teachers' understanding and use of academic data. The intuitive, user-friendly platform means that teachers, rather than getting bogged down in data and made-up stories about numbers, are always focused on the quality of teaching and individual student needs.
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Charlotte Robins

Headteacher

Llantwit Major School, Wales

Used Alps monthly for 5 years+

Nov 2023

I have used Alps in two different schools now and in my opinion it is the best school improvement tool out there. The Alps consultant we work with is also exceedingly helpful as are the entire team.

Reply from Alps:Thank you for your lovely review Charlotte - It's great to hear you feel supported and that you are using Alps in both schools.
Charlotte Robins found Alps:
  • Significantly improves teaching efficiency
    By identifying the teachers who are facilitating the least and the most progress.
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Alps is an excellent school improvement tool and we use MEGS as school targets.
  • Significantly improves attainment
    By identifying pupils and subjects making the least and most progress so appropriate interventions can be put in place to facilitate improvements.
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Victoria Moore

Assistant Headteacher

Used Alps monthly for 5 years+

Oct 2023

I find Alps easy to use. It gives us a clear idea of students expected grades and tracks progress through the course (based on staff professional predictions).

Reply from Alps:Good morning Victoria, thank you for your lovely review. Its great to hear that Alps is positively impacting the staff and students at The Blandford School.
Victoria Moore found Alps:
  • Significantly improves teaching efficiency
    Alps enables us to closely monitor student progress which enables staff to focus on students requiring further interventions.
  • Moderately improves school processes
    We link our professional predictions to Alps and use the reports to inform my discussions with heads of department.
  • Significantly improves attainment
    Timely interventions as a results of Alps tracking enables students to attain higher grades
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Rob Wagland

AHT

Brynteg Comprehensive, Wales

Used Alps weekly for 5 years+

Oct 2023

Really good interactive features now

Reply from Alps:Good morning Rob, thank you for your review!
Rob Wagland found Alps:
  • Moderately improves teaching efficiency
    We use Alps for SEFs and target setting
  • Significantly improves school processes
    Self evaluation is better informed
  • Moderately improves attainment
    In tracking we identify pupils underperforming and choose how to respond
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