It’s time ... for fair, scalable assessment

By Mark House

Every learner deserves assessment that is fair, reliable, and meaningful no matter their background, abilities, or learning pathway. For too long, high-stakes exams and inconsistent moderation have led to systemic bias and bottlenecks in scaling assessment for tens of thousands of schools.

It’s time for fair, scalable assessment

The curriculum reforms bring mandatory diagnostic tests in Year 8, expanded moderation for writing and creative subjects, national enrichment benchmarks, and new inclusion requirements. These changes mean every school, MAT, and local authority must assess and moderate work at scale across subjects, pathways, and learner types. The need for fairness grows with scale, and so do the technical and organisational challenges.​

RM Compare provides the solution. Built on AWS-certified enterprise cloud infrastructure and backed by RM plc’s 50-year heritage, its multi-tenancy architecture enables schools, trusts, and LAs to collaborate securely on large-scale moderation, benchmarking, and diagnostic testing. Adaptive comparative judgement ensures bias-resistant, teacher-led assessment, and rapid aggregation of fair rank orders. Licence Centres and Connectors allow multiple organisations to coordinate without surrendering data autonomy a capability essential for statutory rollout at district, regional, and national levels.​

Fair, scalable assessment is the foundation for a more inclusive future. RM Compare makes reliable cross-school moderation, standardization, and benchmarking possible giving every pupil the value of a rigorous, equitable process, and every school the confidence of secure, resilient technology.

It’s time to deliver fairness at scale and drive real outcomes for every learner, everywhere.

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