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The new ⚡|NOW reporting allows a user to view work from the standard that is of a similar standard to their own, as well as work that is of a quality that is a little higher and a little lower.
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Newsletter October 2026
Despite being only a few weeks since our last Newsletter, we have plenty to share in this update, the highlight being the extension of RM Compare | ⚡NOW onto non-mobile devices.
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Stripping Back to the Song: Why RM Compare | ⚡NOW Does Less, on Purpose
When you build a mobile experience for comparative judgement, the temptation is to start with the desktop application and ask: how can we fit everything onto a smaller screen? With RM Compare |⚡NOW, we asked a different question: what does someone need to make a useful comparison, right now?
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New! RM Compare | ⚡NOW - now available on any device
Hot on the heels of the 'mobile first' release of RM Compare | ⚡NOW. we are pleased to make it accessible on any* device.
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Rediscovering Human Judgement in an Age of AI (Part 3 / 4)
If the first post argued that marking is a child of the Industrial Revolution, and the second showed how AI is mostly being used to build faster horses, this third post is about something older and more fundamental: human judgement itself.
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Why Is the Assessment System Trying to Build Faster Horses – and What Can Be Done About It? (Part 2 / 4)
Early steam engines were bolted onto canal boats instead of horses. Today, autonomous driving is marketed as a convenience feature in conventional cars rather than a reason to rethink how mobility works. And in assessment, AI is being pulled into precisely the same pattern: a new engine strapped onto an old chassis.
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From Disputation to Marks: How the Industrial Revolution Rewired Assessment (Part 1 / 4)
For more than 200 years, formal assessment has been organised around a deceptively simple idea: break performance into parts, assign marks, add them up, and trust the resulting number. Written exams and numerical grading feel so natural that it is hard to imagine assessment working any other way.
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Why AI Demands a New Architecture for Assessment (4 Part Series)
Generative and agentic AI are exposing the limits of assessment systems built for a more predictable, more mechanical world. In response, much of the assessment sector is treating AI as a way to mark faster, moderate more cheaply, and preserve the familiar exam–mark–grade machinery. This will not end well.
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Is RM Compare an Assessment Software Application or Infrastructure?
When people first encounter RM Compare, they usually see it as what our homepage says it is: the world‑leading Adaptive Comparative Judgement system. That description is accurate, but as customers start integrating RM Compare more deeply, a different question often emerges: is this just another application we use, or is it actually part of our assessment infrastructure?
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When AI Beats Economists – And Why That’s Good News For Assessment
Not so long ago, the idea that an AI system could out‑analyse a room full of economists would have sounded like science fiction. Yet that’s exactly what a recentFederal Reserve working paper set out to test.
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Coming Soon! RM Compare |⚡ NOW
A lightweight RM Compare experience for quick judgements. Capture or upload an item, compare it to a ready-made standard, and review your score in just a few steps.
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Time for Tea? Can AI spot a nice cuppa?
Just like everyone else in the UK we are getting very excited about National Tea Day which takes place on the 21st April. The day is a great opportunity to share tea brewing preferences, and the strength of the perfect 'cuppa' is always hotly debated. So we though it would be interesting to get the view of AI.
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A trip to the dentist
This morning I went for a routine dental check‑up. What struck me was how naturally my dentist fell into a comparative frame. He wasn’t mentally ticking boxes on a rubric. He was looking at two artefacts and asking, “Which represents a healthier, more stable situation?”