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• 6th Mar 2026

  Product

  New - Introducing the new RM Compare Modular Ecoystem

  By Mark House

  For years, RM Compare has helped teachers, exam boards, universities and recruiters turn thousands of “which is better?” decisions into fair, reliable rankings of complex work.​ What began as a powerful way to compare pieces of work has now grown into something bigger: a complete ecosystem for creating, managing, and using gold‑standard judgements at scale.​ Today we’re introducing RM Compare | Live, Studio, Hub – three modules that work together as a continuous flywheel.

• 3rd Mar 2026

  Newsletter March 2026

  By Mark House

  For this edition we have produced a couple of series focusing on two critical considerations in the world of assessment, and education more generally. The 'AI World' is moving fast and finding time for necessary thinking and consideration has never been more important.

• 27th Feb 2026

  Curriculum

  Curriculum and the Future of Assessment - The Architecture of Curriculum Alignment (Part 5)

  By Mark House

  Over this series we’ve built an argument step by step: Different curriculum models (content, product, process) need different assessment logics. Curriculum for Wales (CfW), as illuminated by Camau i’r Dyfodol, is best understood as a process curriculum. Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ), via RM Compare, is an agnostic engine: it can serve any of these models depending on how it’s configured.

• 27th Feb 2026

  Curriculum

  When Curriculum and Assessment Clash: Lessons from Scotland - The Architecture of Curriculum Alignment (Part 4)

  By Mark House

  So far in this series we’ve: mapped three curriculum models (content, product, process) and their aligned assessments; seen how Camau i’r Dyfodol helped Wales understand Curriculum for Wales (CfW) as a process curriculum; and explored how Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ), via RM Compare, is an agnostic engine that can serve any of these models depending on how it’s configured. In this post, we look at what happens when those pieces don’t line up

• 27th Feb 2026

  Curriculum

  ACJ as Agnostic Assessment Infrastructure - The Architecture of Curriculum Alignment (Part 3)

  By Mark House

  The core idea of this post is simple but easy to overlook: ACJ is an engine, not an ideology. It doesn’t come with “product” or “process” baked in. It will faithfully amplify whichever conception of quality and progression you plug into it. That makes it powerful – and dangerous – in systems where curriculum and assessment are not yet aligned.

• 27th Feb 2026

  Curriculum

  What Camau i’r Dyfodol Taught Us About Curriculum for Wales - The Architecture of Curriculum Alignment (Part 2)

  By Mark House

  In this post, we zoom in on Wales. The Camau i’r Dyfodol project offers a rare thing: a system‑wide, theoretically grounded attempt to help teachers understand a new national curriculum and to see what happens when they work explicitly with a process model. It also gives us a preview of what goes wrong when that model isn’t shared or isn’t matched by the wider assessment system.

• 27th Feb 2026

  Curriculum

  Three Curriculum Models – and the Assessment Each Deserves (New blog series)

  By Mark House

  When curriculum reform “fails”, we often blame teachers, resources, or “implementation”. But very often the real problem is simpler: the curriculum and the assessment system are speaking different languages. Before we can talk about Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ) or RM Compare, we need a shared map of the curriculum landscape – and a clear view of the assessment that genuinely fits each terrain.

• 19th Feb 2026

  Research

  When the Candidates Pass – But the Exam Doesn’t. How to rescue qualifications in the Age of AI

  By Mark House

  A City of London awarding organisation recently found itself in a strange position. Year after year, candidates were passing a respected Level 6/7 qualification. The statistics looked healthy, the quality assurance paperwork was in order and the exam board could point to detailed rubrics and grade descriptors. Yet employers were telling a different story.

• 18th Feb 2026

  Product

  RM Compare has grown up

  By Mark House

  What began as a powerful way to compare pieces of work is now a complete, production‑ready layer of judgement infrastructure that sits underneath your existing systems and makes subjective assessment fair, fast, and repeatable at any scale. We’ve reached the point Geoffrey Moore calls the “whole product”: not just the clever core technology, but everything wrapped around it that a mainstream organisation needs to trust it with real‑world stakes.

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