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Posts for category: Research
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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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A Decade of Change: How Research Interest in Comparative Judgement Has Evolved
The world of assessment is changing-and if you’ve spent any time exploring the RM Compare blog, you’ll know that Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ) is at the heart of that transformation. But how has the research community’s interest in Comparative Judgement (CJ) changed over the past ten years? Let’s take a look at the journey.
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Exploring the relationship between value and original content
This interesting and novel piece of research brought together two new, innovative products to explore the relationship between content originality and value.
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Preparing for the Jobs of Tomorrow: How RM Compare Aligns with Future Skills Demands
As we look towards 2030, the global job market is set to undergo significant transformation. The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025 highlights key skills that will be crucial for the workforce of the future.
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Using Adaptive Comparative Judgement to assess Physical Education at scale across school groups
Can we reliably, efficiently and effectively using Adaptive Comparative Judgement to assess Physical Education using Video artefacts? It seems we can!
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From Cheating Prevention to Assessment Validity: A Paradigm Shift in Digital Assessment
In the rapidly evolving world of educational technology, a groundbreaking study published in Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education is challenging our approach to digital assessments. The research, titled "From academic integrity to assessment validity: a paradigm shift in digital assessment" by Phillip Dawson and colleagues, argues for a fundamental change in how we view and implement online assessments.
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Supporting research and inquiry
We support a broad range of research projects. Our engagement in each case is context specific however there are some general principles.
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Multi-School Art Assessment Project Report
Assessing digitised 3D artefacts with Adaptive Comparative Judgement as of an ongoing school group project.
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New Research Validates RM Compare Ranks as Effective On-Demand Rulers
In the ever-evolving landscape of educational assessment, Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ) continues to prove its worth as a powerful and flexible tool. A recent study by Jeffrey Buckley, published in the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice journal, provides compelling evidence that further validates the effectiveness of ACJ ranks, particularly those generated by systems like RM Compare, as on-demand rulers for assessment purposes.