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Posts for category: Product
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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.
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Existing customer announcement
RM Assessment, who provides RM Compare, is moving to a new legal entity from 1 June 2026.
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Is your software high quality, how do you know – and does it matter?
When important decisions, results or reputations depend on a piece of software, “quality” stops being a nice‑to‑have. It becomes the question of whether that system will be there when people need it, and whether it can adapt as your needs change.
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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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"How hard is this task?" - assessing difficulty
Comparative judgement is most commonly used to answer a simple question: Which of these pieces of work is better? Teachers and examiners compare two responses, choose one, and behind the scenes an algorithm turns many such decisions into a reliable rank order and a scale. That idea now underpins everything from trust‑wide writing assessments to high‑stakes awarding. The same engine can answer a different question: Which of these tasks is harder?
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From pilots to products: how organisations can modernise without blowing everything up
Every exam body I talk to feels the same squeeze. Governments want innovation. Schools want recognition for richer work. Generative AI is crashing into the system from all sides. And yet, when results day comes, the only thing that really matters is whether the grades stand up in the media and in court.
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New - Learning Progress Dashboard (Experiment)
At RM Compare, we believe that the true value of Comparative Judgement isn't just found in the final rank order (the product), but in the cognitive journey students take to get there (the process). Today, we are excited to share an experimental piece of work: the Learning Progress Dashboard.