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• RM Compare Newsletter April 2024

  Spring has sprung, the Human is in the Loop and bye-bye BETA! Another busy month passes for RM Compare.

• RM Compare Newsletter March 2024

  Spring has sprung with a UI refresh and some other exciting announcements

• Newsletter: October 2022

  It's time for CJ On-Demand

• Newsletter July 2022

• How Swedish Teachers used RM Compare to support assessment calibration at scale

  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. Traditional rubric-based marking can lead to variation between evaluators, an emphasis on surface-level features rather than the quality of learning, and substantial moderation workload. 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.

• How Swedish Teachers used RM Compare to support assessment calibration at scale

  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. Traditional rubric-based marking can lead to variation between evaluators, an emphasis on surface-level features rather than the quality of learning, and substantial moderation workload. 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

• For 500 years, Guilds were how expertise worked. Then we forgot. Now we're remembering.

  The craft guilds of medieval Europe such as goldsmiths, weavers, stonemasons and apothecaries are often remembered as protectionist trade associations. That reputation is not entirely undeserved. But it obscures something more important: they were the most sophisticated knowledge transmission institutions the pre-modern world produced.

• Curriculum change, AI and the race for 'Guild Knowledge'

  Across most established curricula, something important already exists but is rarely named. Over time, teachers, examiners, parents and students have built a shared intuition for what “good” looks like: what a strong essay feels like, what a secure piece of maths work looks like, what “ready for the next stage” means in a subject. That shared intuition is what we have been calling Guild Knowledge.

• Newsletter May 2026

  There has never been a more uncertain time in education. There has never been a more exciting time to be in education.

• Newsletter April 2026

  Welcome to our latest 'bumper' newsletter - there is just so much going on right now! It's hard to think of a time in assessment that has had so much transformation and change taking place. Not only that but the change continues to come from all angles - policy, technological, pedagogical etc etc.

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