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• Why the Discrepancy Between Human and AI Assessment Matters—and Must Be Addressed

  As AI-powered tools increasingly participate in educational assessment, a critical challenge comes into sharp focus: AI judges very differently from humans. This difference is more than technical; it threatens the fairness, trust, and validity of assessment systems if left unaddressed.

• New 6 Part Blog Series - "All Judgements Are Comparisons”: The Human Foundation Beneath AI Assessment

  At the heart of every debate around assessment—whether about student work, creative output, or performance reviews—lies a deceptively simple truth. Laming’s oft-quoted observation reveals that for humans, meaning and value do not exist in a vacuum: every mark, grade, or ranking rests on comparison. This insight isn’t just a philosophical curiosity—it is the key to understanding why trust and validity in marking are so challenging in an era of artificial intelligence.

• Variation in LLM perception on value and quality

• Fairness in Focus: The AI Validation Layer Proof of Concept Powered by RM Compare

  In today’s rapidly changing educational landscape, the key challenge isn’t just whether AI can mark student work, but how to ensure every mark is reliably fair. With that mission in mind, our latest proof of concept was designed to demonstrate why RM Compare is uniquely positioned as the foundation for trustworthy, scalable automated assessment.

• Building Trust: From “Ranks to Rulers” to On-Demand Marking

  The foundations of modern assessment are shifting. Not long ago, RM Compare introduced “ranks to rulers”: a pioneering process that transformed human judgments—ranking student work by quality—into reliable, calibrated measuring scales that educators and students could trust. Now, new AI validation methods are taking these ideas further, making instant, trustworthy assessment a reality for everyone.

• New! RM Compare Training Centre

  Rather than offering passive lessons or static instructions, we empower you to become an active, self-sufficient learner—able to obtain clear, personalised answers, explanations and ideas for any part of RM Compare, whenever you need them.

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• Where's the beef? Learning, Performance, and the Slow AI Revolution

  If you’re old enough to remember the classic Wendy’s commercial, you’ll recall the irreverent demand: “Where’s the beef?” In education technology today, with all the sizzle around AI-powered assessment and automation, the same question applies. Are we seeing deeper learning—or just more output with less substance?

• Why Evaluative Judgement is essential in the age of AI: Looking forward with RM Compare

  As artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) revolutionise learning and work, evaluative judgement—the capability to decide what “good” really means—has never been more important. RM Compare is at the heart of this movement, guiding educators, students, assessors, and designers to thrive in an AI-rich future.

• RM Compare Newsletter - August 2025

  We are already preparing for 'back-to-school', but no need to think about that right now. For many educators' summer is a time for much needed rest and recuperation. It is also a time for reflection. This bumper summer edition of our newsletter mixes quite a few opinion pieces with some product updates.

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