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• Using Adaptive Comparative Judgement for assessing GCSE History - a research report from Qualification Wales (June 2022)

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• The State of Learning by Evaluating

  There's a familiar moment in teaching that almost every educator recognises. You hand out the rubric, explain the assignment, and watch thirty faces look back at you with the same expression — a kind of polite blankness that says I understand the words, but I don't yet understand what you mean. The criteria make sense in the abstract. What "good" looks like in practice is another matter entirely.

• When Written Applications No Longer Signal Ability: "This is a crisis" (2/3)

  The rise of generative AI has disrupted far more than how we write, it has fundamentally broken a mechanism that labour markets, universities, and employers have relied on for decades to identify talent. Ground breaking new research from Princeton and Dartmouth reveals just how profound this disruption is, and why solutions like RM Compare's Adaptive Comparative Judgement are now essential.

• Assessment for Collective Intelligence: How RM Compare Prepares Learners for Tomorrow's Challenges

  What if the most important thing we assess in schools isn't what students know individually, but how well they can think, learn, and solve problems together?

• Tackling Reliability in Adaptive Comparative Judgement: What RM Compare Users Need to Know

  If you’ve been following the evolution of digital assessment, you’ll know that Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ) is transforming how we judge quality—especially with platforms like RM Compare. But you might also have heard about concerns over “inflated reliability statistics.” Is this something to worry about? Let’s look at what the research says, and why RM Compare users can be reassured.

• The Confidence - Controls Gap: Why AI Assessment Is Heading for a Reckoning

  Across hiring and education, AI is already deciding who gets seen, shortlisted, or passed over. Tools built on large language models can read thousands of CVs, mark essays, and sort candidates faster and cheaper than any human team. The efficiency story is compelling. The safety story is not.

• Why EdTech's obsession with daily engagement is breaking learning

  Most digital products in education, awarding, and professional development are hooked on the exact same commercial metric: Attention. Daily Active Users (DAU), session length, streaks, push notifications, and time-in-app sit at the absolute center of traditional EdTech strategy.

• Swiping Right on Assessment: Mobile-First Lessons for RM Compare

  What can a dating app teach us about assessment? Quite a lot, as it turns out. The dramatic difference in decision time across platforms, highlighted in the chart below, is at the heart of RM Compare’s mobile-first transformation. It’s also a bridge—built by research—that connects traditional marking assumptions to the new realities of digital assessment.

• Festival of Education 2022

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