Products & Services

Alpine Achievement Systems is an Internet-based achievement data management system designed to help teachers and administrators use data to improve the achievement of all students, and to reduce the data management burden associated with accountability.

State Assessments

The State Assessments Package includes reporting for the suite of required assessments for your state, which may include assessments such as: your state's Standards assessment, English Language Learner Assessment, Alternate Assessment, High School Exit Exams, End of Course Assessment, etc. Some features of this package include:

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• Programming our system to read your state's file layouts so you can upload the test files from your desktop and share them within your district and school users as appropriate. This includes current data files and historic files as appropriate.
• Import of statewide summary data so your local results can be compared with the state overall.
• We program our system to take into account subtleties such as record exclusion rules so your results are replicable and trustworthy.
• Summary reports custom designed to match the characteristics of each test.
Interactive graphs that allow you to click-the-bar to see the students and also can be imported into other applications such as PowerPoint or Word.
Individual student status and longitudinal reports for each test.
Roster Spreadsheets of student results including our Custom Spreadsheet Design tool so you can build your own spreadsheets from your data.
Disaggregations and demographic grouping of students on the fly.
Support documents and instructional resources specific to each test.

Student Plans

Alpine's Student Plans Package was inspired by our popular Literacy System. It allows you to set up and use as many Plans as you wish. The Student Plans System includes the ability to:

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• Use our predesigned plan setups for Response to Intervention, Literacy, English Language Learners, Gifted Students, Accommodations. We also have a general Student Learning Plan setup.
• We are happy to add statewide Plan setups to meet the documentation and reporting requirements of a particular state (e.g., a state's requirement for particular elements to be included in a student behavior plan)
• You can design your own Student Plan to meet local needs.
• Empower teachers to create and maintain student plans electronically, allowing all teachers who work with a student to view the information they need so they can adapt instruction to meet each student's needs.
Archive historic plans for the student electronically so teachers can view information across time conveniently.
Monitor the plans of students remotely as a school or district administrator.
Generate spreadsheet exports of the information from your plans, which includes our Custom Spreadsheet Design tool so you can build your own spreadsheets from your data.
Plot individual student progress over time (progress monitoring graphs) on some plans.
Generate summary reports from the data (e.g., Are we identifying more students as gifted over time? What proportion of students is using a particular RTI intervention?)
Access Alpine's extensive Literacy system which includes 124 research-based instructional strategies from which to include in the student's plan.

Data Warehouse

The Alpine Data Warehouse Package is the ultimate "throw anything at it" system. It helps you bring together achievement data from many sources, easily generate student and summary reports, and distribute actionable information throughout your organization from one location. Some features of the system are:

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• The ability to add tests from any content area, including both large-scale assessments and locally developed measures.
• Flexible data entry methods. Once an assessment is set up in the system, users can upload assessment results or enter them by hand as needed.
• Preset file specifications for many frequently used tests, so data can be imported and acted upon quickly. Over 40 tests are already set up, including such popular assessments as: NWEA, AP, DIBELS, AIMSWeb, BEAR, CogAT, PLAN, EXPLORE, Scantron, TOSCRF, TOSWRF, DRA2, BEAR, STAR, Acuity, and 6-trait writing.
• Summary reports are designed to answer key questions about your data. These reports are custom-designed for each specific test. Additional reports can be created if there are other key questions you would like the data to answer for you.
Individual student status and longitudinal reports (where appropriate) custom designed for each test. Plus a Custom Spreadsheet Design tool so you can build your own spreadsheets from your data.
Interactive graphs with "click-the-bar" functionality, so you can easily see which students are represented in each part of the graph.
Links to relevant instructional and interpretation resources.
The NWEA System can be purchased as a stand-alone system or as a part of the Data Warehouse Package.

Features included in all Alpine subscriptions

All Alpine clients have access to a number of features, functions, and tools, including:

• The ability to see everything about a student in one place through the Alpine Student Center including student portfolio reports - a PDF summary of all test and plan data in the system.
• Electronic Records Transfers - The ability to electronically send all records from one school district to another when a student moves.
• Extensive support materials throughout the site including multimedia demonstrations.
• Menu bars making it easy to navigate the site easily plus "student-centric navigation" features that allow you to move around the site from the perspective of one student's data.
Role-based User Permission Profiles with over 20 customizable characteristics.
Ability to add and update users manually, through spreadsheet uploads, or keep user accounts up to date automatically.
Set up custom defined student demographics and then upload a current students file from your student information system. The student file can be uploaded manually or the process can be automated.
Data scrub tools to help associate rogue test data with students when a problem such as an ID coding error prevents the records from filing properly.
The ability to adjust the minimum number of students for summary reporting on the fly so you can generate summary reports for internal audiences or for the public, while protecting students' privacy rights (FERPA)
A "time out" option, to bump out users after a district-determined amount of inactivity on a user's account.
Import a district graphic/logo to appear on student and summary reports.
View students based on the school where they were tested, their current school and grade, or next school and grade. The "next school and grade" is an option that makes the data available to next year's school in the spring before the student arrives, which is particularly helpful when students are moving from elementary to middle school and from middle to high school.
Student groups and demographic groups. Student groups can be copied or shared with other users.
Upload student groups for all teachers' classes and share them with teachers (can be automated).Transfer files between users securely using the File Exchange utility.
Receive assistance using the extensive documentation posted on the site, or via email or phone.