Research at the heart of everything we do. We seek credibility through collaboration by working with some of the world's leading researchers, labs and funders.
Our award winning projects provide the necessary confidence and trust our users demand. Our concern for efficacy is relentless.
Sweden:
Across school systems and education ministries, assessment is increasingly focused on complex, open-ended outcomes such as critical thinking, conceptual understanding and problem solving. But consistently evaluating these skills can be difficult and time consuming.
Dr Eva Hartell led a repeated-measures study in Sweden to explore whether a distributed evaluator group could develop a shared understanding of quality through Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ). The study also examined whether that shared standard could help create reliable assessment scales with fewer judgements over time.
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The United States:
The National Science Foundation (NSF) “Learning by Evaluating” (LbE) study (Award #2101235) is the most comprehensive analysis of Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ) ever undertaken - an investment of $1.257 million over five years, spanning world-class universities and K-12 settings.
The Project initially ran for 3 years (2022 – 2024), and was then extended for a further 24 months (2024 - 2026). The data from the entire study is currently being analysed and is scheduled for publication in 2026.
RM Compare was the backbone technology platform throughout.
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Ireland / Netherlands:
Jeffrey Buckley (Technological University of the Shannon) and Caiwei Zhu (Delft University of Technology) set out to answer a critical question for anyone seeking fairness and efficiency in educational assessment: How feasible is Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ) when deployed in real classrooms?
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UK / China:
The landscape of language assessment is evolving rapidly, especially with the 2020 update to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR-CV). This update redefines intelligibility - now encompassing both actual understanding and the perceived ease of understanding - making it a more holistic and communicative measure. But how do we assess this complex construct reliably and at scale? Enter Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ) and, specifically, RM Compare.
A new study by Wang and Zheng (2025) puts RM Compare at the centre of this conversation, rigorously examining its potential to deliver on the CEFR-CV’s ambitious goals for pronunciation and speaking assessment.
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