These are critical pages for subject staff to understand, they will help to identify priorities for department improvement plans and teaching schemes. This PDF export is a powerful tool for enabling subject staff to look at progress made by groups of students against their MEGs.

Connect Interactive complements and extends the analysis by subject area. Each subject has its own benchmark thermometer that compares that subject department to all other departments of the same subject in the DfE national dataset. An Alps score of 1.00 means that all students have achieved their MEGs, but this can lead to different Alps grades for each subject, as each subject thermometer is unique. Students within the subject cohort are listed individually showing their MEG and their actual grades (or predicted grades if using this page in Connect Interactive monitoring).

The page fragment below shows a single subject page for A level Biology. You can see that the expected points are shown, calculated using prior attainment data from KS4. You can also see the actual points scored and the calculation that generates the Alps subject indicator score. The subject 4 year trend is also shown, as is a full list of students entered for Biology ordered by their prior attainment data, showing their actual grade and their Alps minimum expected grade.