@neildefty.bsky.social
Head of Customer Relations, No More Marking Ltd. Director, Defty Consulting Ltd. Occasional charity work Obsessive runner
"Cars are faster than humans, but we still teach PE at school." And other marathon-related metaphors...
22.07.2025 17:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Latest from us - we've completed some more AI assessment projects and are yet to find an AI error.
All the big human-AI disagreements are human error.
Take a look at a couple of examples and see who you agree with...
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/can-you-fi...
Some big news from us.
We're launching our first ever national history assessment - Year 7, autumn term, Battle of Hastings.
It's AI-assisted so it'll be super quick.
And it's free! (But not for long!)
Read more & sign up here.
www.nomoremarking.com/products/cjh...
There's still time for schools to sign up for our free Y6 redrafting assessment!
And who doesn't love a good plot twist?
If you have heard about our AI marking projects and are intrigued, then you can take part in one for free this summer and see if you agree with the AI.
CJ Dynamo is our Y6 project.
CJ Lightning for Y9.
Places are free but limited, so sign up asap!
www.nomoremarking.com?countryCode=GB
Using AI to judge student writing 'has the potential to revolutionise assessment and decimate workload', say @daisychristo.bsky.social and @nomoremarking.bsky.social after their trail of the approach
schoolsweek.co.uk/using-ai-to-...
We think this has the potential to revolutionise assessment and decimate workload!
(And in addition, I've learned the historical meaning of 'decimate' today.)
How Better Feedback Can Revolutionize Education
www.econtalk.org/how-better-f...
A great discussion between No More Marking's Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social and EconTalk's Russ Roberts (even including a brief comparison of their respective marathon results half way through!)
Last week we published the latest results of our Australian writing assessment project.
You can read a summary of all the results here.
We had over 13k participating students from schools in every Australian state & territory!
aus.nomoremarking.com/assessing-wr...
Our new AI assessment project starts at the end of Feb and it is already proving very popular!
It's a Year 7 writing assessment and it is free for any secondary in England & Wales.
You'll get to try 2 new features - AI judging & AI audio feedback.
Read more here. https://buff.ly/41goQl6
Well, that could be true... Somebody once told me that all teachers love a good ballad.
Then again, I might have mis-heard, as it was a noisy lunch queue - they might have said salad.
You can still have a go of the judging if you want!
Follow the link to sign up:
au.nomoremarking.com/judging/sign...
Then start judging by clicking the purple Left/Right buttons to choose your favourite!
Thanks for the initial idea, @darrenhankey.bsky.social !
And apologies, Kemi Badenoch - although commenting on the @YouGov survey that Yellow Submarine was your favourite, it seems the rest of the nation disagrees with you!
Here's the full list of results for the 45 45s...
@nomoremarking.bsky.social @daisychristo.bsky.social
Comparative judgement has helped us find the nation's favourite Beatles song!
The winner was decided yesterday, and despite the stiff competition from Hey Jude, Eleanor Rigby and Let It Be, the winner was indeed decided as...
🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
Yesterday
Top 10 here:
Last couple of days to take part in our comparative judgement task to find the nation's favourite Beatles song!
Follow the link to sign up:
au.nomoremarking.com/judging/sign...
Then start judging by clicking the Left/Right buttons to choose!
@nomoremarking.bsky.social @daisychristo.bsky.social
We have a new Year 7 AI assessment project any secondary school in England can take part in for free. Deadline 28 Feb.
Details here. https://buff.ly/3Q54pkx
Intro webinar here. https://buff.ly/3Q2Z4Kw
Theory behind it here. https://buff.ly/3WJ643f
No More Marking transforming the world?
Or at least, the world of assessment?
Possibly, as long as we recognise that we still need the “human in the loop”...
45 of the greatest Beatles 45s - but which is the best?
Let's use comparative judgement!
Open your laptop (or tablet or sideways phone).
Follow link to sign up:
au.nomoremarking.com/judging/sign...
Then click Left/Right to choose your favourite!
@nomoremarking.bsky.social @daisychristo.bsky.social
The comparative judgement way to find the nation's favourite Beatles song!
It's easy...
All you need is...
a laptop/tablet/sideways phone.
Follow link:
au.nomoremarking.com/judging/sign...
Then use the Left/Right buttons to choose your favourite!
@nomoremarking.bsky.social @daisychristo.bsky.social
A free webinar demonstrating our amazing new AI feedback feature will be ai-ring at 4pm today!
(My computer wrote that.)
Fascinating article on AI!
(It's quite good, but for now, we’ll just have to keep on judging.)
Comparative Judgement is a proven way of assessing writing reliably without a rubric.
If you're thinking "how is that possible" then join our webinar on 3 February at 4pm, take part in some demo judging of real Y5 & Y7 writing, and find out!
https://buff.ly/3YzOgav
Quite reassuringly, the comparative judgement process has given us exactly the same top 7 chocs and the same bottom 5 chocs as when we ran this back in 2021!
Here's a graph of how the 2021 results look compared to the 2024 results:
So it seems that the only way to beat smooth milk chocolate, or caramel chocolates, is by adding mini balls of crunchy malt!
Time for some @UKCelebrations all round!
Here's the full list of 37...
The power and simplicity of comparative judgement has given us The Nation's Favourite Selection Chocolate, thanks to over 8,000 judgements from over 150 judges!
Despite the stiff competition from a squad of Heroes chocolates, the winner is....
The Maltesers Teaser!
Top 10 here:
Tricky decisions!
To help us find The Nation's Favourite Selection Chocolate (if you haven't already), follow the link to sign up, then judge by clicking the purple Left/Right button to choose your favourite:
au.nomoremarking.com/judging/sign...
@nomoremarking.bsky.social @daisychristo.bsky.social
The comparative judgement way to help find The Nation's Favourite Selection Chocolate!
Open your laptop/tablet and follow the link to sign up:
au.nomoremarking.com/judging/sign...
Then start judging by clicking the purple Left or Right button to choose your favourite...
@daisychristo.bsky.social
Humans and AI working in harmony! Maybe there's hope after all...
11.12.2024 14:12 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
8 years ago we stopped writing comments in pupils' books and moved to whole class feedback. Teacher workload and pupil outcomes improved dramatically as a result. We have never looked back.
Very pleased to see our case study in @katejonesteach.bsky.social excellent new book.
