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RM Compare Newsletter - August 2024
It's been another busy month. As educators, learners and accreditors take a well deserved break we continue to move forward with a series of product improvements.
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Embracing Skills England: A New Era for Skills Development and Economic Growth
The UK government has launched Skills England today, a transformative initiative aimed at addressing the nation's skills shortages and driving economic growth. Announced by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, Skills England is set to bring together central and local government, businesses, training providers, and unions to meet the skills needs of the next decade across all regions.
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Welcoming the UK Government's Curriculum and Assessment Review
The UK government has taken a significant step towards modernising education with the launch of its comprehensive Curriculum and Assessment Review. This wide-ranging review, announced today, aims to create a broader, richer, and more cutting-edge curriculum that will drive high standards and better prepare young people for life and work
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RM Compare Newsletter - July 2024
As one academic year draws (at least in this part of the world) to close we are reflecting on lessons learnt while continuing to work hard preparing for the next one.
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Assessing Design Innovation - The e-scape project 20 years on
How can lessons learnt from the innovative e-scape project help to facilitate a national education 'change' agenda in curriculum, pedagogy and assessment to empower teachers, learners and all stakeholders?
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On Validity and reliability
A common question we get asked concerns the reliability data shown in the standard reports. To understand the usefulness of this number it is worth stepping back a little to consider reliability as a concept and its relationship to validity in assessment session design.
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RM Compare Newsletter - June 2024
Our monthly report is packed full of news about new product releases and the very latest research and opinion on all things Adaptive Comparative Judgement.
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Eurovision judging - it's noisy! (and biased) 1/2
The correlation between the rank order in Eurovision given by the expert panel process and the public vote process has been a subject of analysis and debate. Studies and observations indicate that there is often a noticeable disparity between the two voting processes.
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Understanding Decision Hygiene: Reducing Noise and Bias with RM Compare (2/2)
In the realm of decision-making, two significant challenges often undermine the accuracy and fairness of our judgments: noise and bias. This blog post aims to elucidate the differences between noise and bias, explain their impact on decision-making, and demonstrate how RM Compare can enhance decision hygiene to reduce these errors.