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Newsletter September 2026
We're back! In fact we are soooo back with a special announcement about RM Compare | NOW, our new on-demand mobile Comparative Judgement experience.
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RM Compare | NOW ...... available now!
You are invited to try out the worlds first mobile, on-demand Adaptive Comparative Judgement experience. For those following closely this has been quite a journey and long term ambition. There is still more to learn and more to do, but reaching this release is a significant step.
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Shared Standards: Making Quality Reusable
Shared Standards connects assessment evidence across RM Compare. Studio creates comparative ranks, Hub securely governs mark-derived and ACJ evidence, and Live applies approved rulers to new work. Together, they support consistent standardisation, moderation and on-demand comparison - helping organisations make professional judgement transparent, reusable and reliable.
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Steady State, Not Static: Maintaining Assessment Standards When Questions Change (3/3)
This post explains how awarding organisations can maintain shared standards even when assessment questions change each year. Rather than relying on a fixed set of historic examples, a living master ruler uses approved anchor items and bridge calibration to test how new task-specific work relates to an established standard. This allows organisations to link, limit or separate new evidence responsibly—maintaining continuity without forcing false equivalence.
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From Marked Evidence to Reusable Rulers: A Practical Path for Awarding Organisations (Part 2/3)
Awarding organisations already hold valuable standards evidence in marked candidate work, mark schemes, annotations and standardisation materials. This post explains how those assets can become governed reference sets in RM Compare—and, where the assessment construct aligns, be strengthened through ACJ into stable, reusable rulers. The result is a dual-evidence standard that preserves the authority of original marking while supporting more consistent standardisation, moderation and live comparison.
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From Item Repositories to Standards Repositories: Making Shared Quality Reusable (Part 1/3)
This post explores why awarding organisations should move beyond static item repositories and build standards repositories: governed, reusable evidence of what quality looks like. It shows how marked work, annotations, mark schemes and examiner judgement can become enduring assets, and how ACJ can strengthen suitable reference sets into stable, reusable rulers for standardisation, moderation and live assessment.
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From efficient assessment to new revenue
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.
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When you know, you know
We are living through an anxious moment in education. AI is reshaping what matters, curriculum is shifting under our feet, and many of the old certainties no longer feel certain at all. In that kind of climate, assessment can easily become another source of pressure: another place where people are asked to act with confidence before they have had the chance to build it. It does not have to be like that.
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Why 'Guild Knowledge' is your organisation's most valuable, and most overlooked asset
In the previous posts, we explored what Guild Knowledge is (the tacit, experience‑based ability to recognise quality) and showed what the research says about how it can be developed through Learning by Evaluating. This post makes the organisational case: what happens when Guild Knowledge is absent, why conventional responses make it worse, and how to build it deliberately and at scale.