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Posts for category: AI & ML
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Race to Understanding: Your Item’s “Official Rating” in RM Compare
Ever wanted a single, fair number to sum up how good something is? RM Compare gives each item a Parameter Value—for this blog, think of it as its Official Rating, just like a racehorse at the track.
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How does the RM Compare AI 'Learn' - New Interactive demo
Learning for a machine is not the same as it is for a human - conflating the two is problematic but all too common. The same is true for Intelligence. With our new Interactive report you can now see how the RM Compare Machine learns.
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Where's the beef? Learning, Performance, and the Slow AI Revolution
If you’re old enough to remember the classic Wendy’s commercial, you’ll recall the irreverent demand: “Where’s the beef?” In education technology today, with all the sizzle around AI-powered assessment and automation, the same question applies. Are we seeing deeper learning—or just more output with less substance?
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Why Evaluative Judgement is essential in the age of AI: Looking forward with RM Compare
As artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) revolutionise learning and work, evaluative judgement—the capability to decide what “good” really means—has never been more important. RM Compare is at the heart of this movement, guiding educators, students, assessors, and designers to thrive in an AI-rich future.
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Comparative Judgement: Elevating Human Input in the Age of AI
If you are user of an LLM you may have seen something similar to this image. Looks familiar right? This image is taken from Perplexity, but the problem they are trying is a universal one - and it's not going away any time soon!
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Beyond Formula: The New Frontier for Assessment in an AI World
As AI-powered marking becomes more common in education, we must confront a critical risk: the “washback” effect, where the method of assessment shapes how and what students learn. Automated essay scoring powered by AI often rewards essays that adhere closely to expected templates—clear structure, formulaic vocabulary, and standard organization—regardless of whether content is genuinely insightful or original.
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Finding the Right Fit: How RM Compare is Transforming Candidate Selection for Work, University, and Schools in the age of AI
Across industries and institutions, those responsible for recruitment and admissions are wrestling with a perfect storm: soaring application numbers, the rapid rise of AI-generated content, and the ever-present need for fairness and authenticity. The result? Recruiters and admissions teams are overwhelmed, and the risk of missing out on genuine talent has never been higher.
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What the Recent Apple Study Taught Us About AI, Reasoning, and Assessment
In June 2025, Apple published a landmark study that has sent shockwaves through the AI and assessment communities. The research, titled The Illusion of Thinking, rigorously tested the reasoning abilities of the most advanced AI models—so-called large reasoning models (LRMs) from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others—using a series of classic logic puzzles designed to scale in complexity. The findings have profound implications for how we understand AI’s capabilities, especially in the context of educational assessment.
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RM Compare and AI
We get asked a lot of questions about RM Compare and AI - here are some of the common ones together with our responses