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• Are You Buying "Instructional Theatre" or Genuine Learning? The Cognitive Science Behind RM Compare.

  In the crowded landscape of educational technology, it is easy to be seduced by "smooth flow." Apps designed with slick interfaces, gamified rewards, and passive clicking mechanisms often feel engaging. They promise learning without the friction.

• Designing Healthy RM Compare Sessions: Build Reliability In, Don’t Inspect It In

  The best way to avoid the “we worked hard and reliability is low” moment is to design sessions so that health is baked in from the start. Healthy sessions are not accidents: they result from clear purpose, good task design, well‑briefed judges, and enough comparisons to let the model discover a shared scale of quality. This post turns what you now know about rank order, judge misfit and item misfit into concrete design principles you can apply before, during and after a session.

• RM Compare Newsletter - October 2025

  We have spent the summer making a number deep in the RM Compare system making a number of 'under-the-hood' changes and improvements. This effort will start to be realised very soon by users with some significant updates and upgrade - can't say much more right now but watch this space!

• Comparative Judgement: Elevating Human Input in the Age of AI

  If you are user of an LLM you may have seen something similar to the image above. Looks familiar right? This image is taken from Perplexity, but the problem they are trying is a universal one - and it's not going away any time soon!

• Beyond Formula: The New Frontier for Assessment in an AI World

  As AI-powered marking becomes more common in education, we must confront a critical risk: the “washback” effect, where the method of assessment shapes how and what students learn. Automated essay scoring powered by AI often rewards essays that adhere closely to expected templates—clear structure, formulaic vocabulary, and standard organization—regardless of whether content is genuinely insightful or original.

• How RM Compare Empowers Schools to Meet the Government’s New Writing Framework

  The Department for Education’s new writing framework sets a bold vision for primary education in England: build confident, fluent writers through sequenced, evidence-based teaching and assessment. As schools prepare to implement these changes, RM Compare offers a powerful, research-backed assessment platform that aligns with the framework’s principles and helps every pupil succeed.

• 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.

• RM Compare Newsletter - October 2024

  We have a number of 'firsts' in this edition including the announcement of our inaugural symposium, our first venture into podcasts and our shortlisting at the prestigious Learning and Technologies Awards.

• RM Compare Newsletter - June 2024

• Peer Learning through Adaptive Comparative Judgement in Higher and Further Education

  Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ) has been increasingly recognized as a valuable tool for peer learning in higher and further education contexts.

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