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12th Aug 2026
Research

How Swedish Teachers used RM Compare to support assessment calibration at scale

By Mark House

Across school systems and education ministries, assessment is increasingly focused on complex, open-ended outcomes. But consistently evaluating skills, knowledge and understanding in this context can be difficult. Traditional rubric-based marking can lead to variation between evaluators, an emphasis on surface-level features rather than the quality of learning, and substantial moderation workload. This study examined whether that shared standard could help create reliable assessment scales with fewer judgements over time.
10th Aug 2026
Product

From efficient assessment to new revenue

By Mark House

Whether you are leading assessment strategy across a school trust, maintaining standards for an awarding body, or driving digital transformation in an enterprise, the core operational challenge remains the same: how to capture subjective human judgment and turn it into a consistent, scalable asset.
21st Jul 2026
Research

Beyond the Black Box: What New 2026 Research Teaches Us About Validating AI Assessment

By Mark House

As artificial intelligence and Large Language Models (LLMs) become deeply embedded in global education, a central question looms over the industry: Can we truly trust AI to act as an autonomous judge of quality?
21st Jul 2026
Research

Fewer Comparisons, Higher Bar: What the Latest ACJ Research Means for RM Compare Users

By Mark House

Recent research indicates that we can aim higher on reliability while asking judges to do less work. For RM Compare users, that is good news: it supports designing sessions that are both more efficient and more defensible.

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.
17th Feb 2026
Product

New! Create interactive reports with your LLM (Experiment)

By Mark House

All RM Compare sessions can allow you to extract very detailed data sets (Advanced and Enterprise Plans). We already provide you with some great reporting, however the latest Generative AI tools might be able to give you even greater insights.
10th Feb 2026
Data Sovereignty

Beyond GDPR: Using the UK AI Product Safety Standards to Judge Your Assessment Tools

By Mark House

In this series, we’ve been arguing that sovereignty is the only sustainable path for professional judgment in an agentic world. We started by looking at the infrastructure we’ll need for sovereign intelligence, then at the difference between sovereign systems and AI wrappers, and most recently at dark patterns that steer people into feeding someone else’s models.
10th Feb 2026
Data Sovereignty

The Sovereign Exit: Why Portability is the Ultimate Trust Test

By Mark House

In our series on digital sovereignty, we have explored how "Harvesting Models" use dark patterns to bypass consent and how "AI Wrappers" quietly extract value from your institutional judgment data. But there is one final, definitive test of a vendor’s intent: What happens when you want to leave?
10th Feb 2026
Data Sovereignty

Dark Patterns in AI Assessment: When “Consent” Steals Your Sovereignty

By Mark House

In earlier posts we argued that sovereignty is the only sustainable path for professional judgment, and that organisations need infrastructure which lets them own and operate their own intelligence. There’s another layer to this: even if the architecture is centralised, the interface can quietly decide who wins. The way AI is presented in a product can make the difference between a conscious choice and a gentle shove.
10th Feb 2026
Data Sovereignty

When “AI Wrappers” Harvest Your Judgment Data

By Mark House

In the last two posts, we argued that sovereignty is the only sustainable path for professional judgment, and that the real work now is building the infrastructure that lets organisations own and operate their own intelligence.
9th Feb 2026
Data Sovereignty

Why Sovereignty is the Only Sustainable Path: The Future of Professional Judgment

By Mark House

In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously noted that "Software is eating the world." By 2024, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang updated that reality: "AI is eating software." As we move into 2026, we are entering the final stage of this evolution: Agents are eating the enterprise.
9th Feb 2026
Data Sovereignty

Building the Global Infrastructure for Professional Judgment in an Agentic World

By Mark House

The vision of a truly data-driven system is no longer a distant goal; it is the immediate frontier. In 2026, we are witnessing a fundamental shift in how organisations understand data and expertise. This isn't just a story for schools; it is a global movement toward Sovereign Intelligence that spans every sector where human judgment matters.
7th Feb 2026
Curriculum for Wales

Beyond the Scorecard: Welcoming the New Era of Welsh Educational Data

By Mark House

The recent publication of the Data and Information to Support Learning and Improvement Impact Assessment by the Welsh Government marks a watershed moment for education in Wales. It signals a definitive move away from narrow, high-stakes accountability and toward a holistic, learner-centered "Information Ecosystem."

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