Awarding
For Awarding Bodies, Regulators & End-Point Assessment
Turn examiner judgement into defensible standards.
RM Compare helps awarding organisations convert many expert judgements on complex work into reliable rank orders that support grade boundaries, moderation, quality assurance and clearer evidence of what good looks like.
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Reliable Rank Order
A visible standard for complex work2
Standards Assets
Ranks now, rulers when needed∞
Reuse Across the Cycle
Boundary setting, QA, training and moderationThe Sector Problem
Rubrics alone do not create defensible standards.
Awarding organisations are under pressure to set and maintain standards for increasingly diverse and complex responses, while also handling regulatory scrutiny, examiner capacity constraints and the growing risk of formulaic or AI-shaped work.
The challenge: traditional marking and standardisation processes often struggle to turn many examiner judgements into visible, verifiable standards that can support boundary setting, moderation and appeals.
The RM Compare answer: comparative judgement transforms those dispersed expert decisions into reliable rank orders that reveal relative quality directly and create stronger evidence for high-stakes decisions.
See the Platform in Action
From judgement to standards
RM Compare in under a minute
A quick introduction to adaptive comparative judgement.
Assessing what matters
Why comparative judgement works for authentic, difficult-to-mark responses.
Standards First
Set boundaries and standards on complex work
RM Compare gives awarding organisations a practical way to rank scripts, essays, portfolios and project work where analytic marking alone struggles to capture holistic quality.
Those rank orders provide immediate standards evidence for boundary setting and awarding decisions, while also helping teams identify natural threshold points and compare current performance with historical expectations.
Start with one qualification or component, then extend into wider standards and awarding workflows.
QA, Moderation & Training
Reuse the standards you create
The value does not stop at a rank order. RM Compare also enables awarding bodies to turn calibrated work into reusable exemplars and rulers for moderation, provider validation, centre guidance, examiner standardisation and training.
That means standards become operational assets: visible, reusable and easier to communicate across examiners, centres and training partners.
Enterprise Ready
Built for the awarding ecosystem
RM Compare supports the wider operational needs of awarding organisations: defensible decision making, scalable judging, quality assurance, and standards communication across providers, centres and regulators.
⚖️ Defensible awarding decisions
Use reliable comparative data to strengthen grade boundary setting, standardisation, moderation and evidence for appeals or audit processes.
👥 Wider judging pools, stronger evidence
Reduce dependence on very small groups of senior examiners by distributing judgement across a broader expert pool while still producing robust standards evidence.
🔁 One platform, multiple workflows
Apply the same standards engine across project qualifications, essays, coursework moderation, provider validation, centre training and other high-stakes judgement tasks.
Designed for complex evidence
Use RM Compare where standards depend on expert judgement, not just mark schemes.
"RM Compare allowed us to move away from rigid box-ticking. The reliability data satisfied our regulators, and the teachers loved the process."
Hayden Wood, Director of Assessment, ISEB