Daisy Christodoulou

Seeing how @daisychristo.bsky.social and NMM's work on this has developed is facinating. Having had to delve into the Ed/AI world more lately, it's clear how valuable it is to have this research being led by people who know how learning works and have a healthy scepticism.

This was, as was Daisy's keynote last year, an absolutely brilliant and eye-opening talk!

We have been sceptical about AI marking in the past, & there are still issues to iron out.

But we now have a system that is working well in practice. If you went back in time and offered this to someone in the past, they'd think it was a kind of magic.

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AI-enhanced writing assessment is working at scale.

Read more and try it out yourself for free!

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Great day at Research Ed Birmingham yesterday.

I spoke about AI & education: what needs to change.

You can download my slides here: bit.ly/DCBrum2026
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Solving marking at scale! The AI and assessment state of play, February 2026

Almost a year after developing our new AI-enhanced assessment model - what have we learned? And how can you get involved?

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Solving marking at scale! The AI and assessment state of play, February 2026

Almost a year after developing our new AI-enhanced assessment model - what have we learned? And how can you get involved?

substack.nomoremarking.com/p/solving-ma...

Tutor-proof tests: nice idea, but for high-stakes tests that determine entry into prestigious institutions, they won’t work.

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Our next Comparative Judgement plus AI webinar is on Weds! Last few places left.

Free to attend, and you'll get 30 free AI credits if you attend. Enough to assess a whole class!

Over the last year, we've built an innovative model of writing assessment that blends human & AI judgement.

If you would like to see how it works & try it for free, sign up for our webinar next Wednesday at 4pm. We will give all attendees 30 free AI credits.

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Is it possible to develop a tutor-proof test? Or should we focus on tests worth teaching to instead?

Selective schools & universities use entrance tests.

Can you create an entrance test that is "tutor-proof"? Would you even want to?

Are non-verbal reasoning tests the answer?

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Over the last year, we've built an innovative model of writing assessment that blends human & AI judgement.

If you would like to see how it works & try it for free, sign up for our webinar next Wednesday at 4pm. We will give all attendees 30 free AI credits.

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Does a university education help you earn more? Maybe, but not in the way you think

A great provocation from @daisychristo.bsky.social at the end of this! Standardised assessments for universities….

Read the blog before you say this is bonkers!

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Does a university education help you earn more? Maybe, but not in the way you think

Why do we measure the impact of university based on graduate earnings?

Would you measure a hospital based on the later earnings of the people it treats?

Why not use assessment data to measure university impact instead?

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Does a university education help you earn more? Maybe, but not in the way you think

We spend billions of private & public money on university education, justified by the fact that it teaches valuable skills.

But there's surprisingly little evidence this is true - partly because we have little reliable assessment data for most degrees.

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Lots of overlap between this post and my @smfthinktank.bsky.social paper from 2021 on how policymakers should respond to the problem of signalling in education.

Specifically on the need for better measures of direct "learning gain" from university

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Student loans & interest charges are high, but justified by the fact graduates earn more.

But does that justification work? People who buy Rolexes earn more than those who don't, but we don't encourage 18-year-olds to take out loans to buy one..

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We've got some feedback on our AI feedback.

It's "uncannily accurate" - but maybe a bit too verbose and harsh! We're working on simplifying and softening it.

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Imagine a world where English teachers get their marking done before the maths teachers...
That is what our pioneer schools are seeing!

Read a case study here.

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Our next Comparative Judgement plus AI intro webinar is on Weds 25 Feb at 4pm.

We will give away 30 free AI judging credits to everyone who attends!

These will give you AI judging, AI feedback and AI transcriptions for a whole class.

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AI assessments for KS3 English Literature: a case study Making English marking quicker than maths...

English Literature has the worst marking reliability of any subject, & essays take a long time to mark.

Can our AI-enhanced Comparative Judgement model close the reliability & efficiency gap with maths?

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The time is now right for school phone bans, in a way it wasn't before.

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Our next Comparative Judgement plus AI intro webinar is on Weds 25 Feb at 4pm.

We will give away 30 free AI judging credits to everyone who attends!

These will give you AI judging, AI feedback and AI transcriptions for a whole class.

www.nomoremarking.com/events

You can believe that schools need a lot more and a lot less technology.

EG Handwriting recognition technology will make screen-free classrooms even more viable.

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What would Mr Toad make of school phone bans? Why phones are more like cars than cigarettes

It’s only tangentially to do with schools but it’s another funny and insightful @daisychristo.bsky.social piece on mobile phones and shifting social norms. Someone should really give her a newspaper column….

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What would Mr Toad make of school phone bans? Why phones are more like cars than cigarettes

Some thoughts on regulating social media.

In the past I've compared smartphones to cigarettes, which is unfair - they're obviously more useful than that.

Cars are a better analogy - a brilliant technology with horrible downsides.

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How to write a good rubric for an AI assessment Don't be like Jose Mourinho

First, a powerful argument from @daisychristo.bsky.social for ditching over-prescriptive rubrics which don't actually help you judge student work effectively. (Also a counter-intuitive finding that essays with more factual errors are often better!). substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Great article here on how Comparative Judgement helps improve teaching, not just assessment.

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- We have a new project: AI Custom Tasks. It makes it easy to use Comparative Judgement plus AI to assess any subject, whenever you want.
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- Sign up for our webinar on 25 February where all attendees get 30 free AI credits.
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