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Research Matters Issue 33 Spring 2022

The latest issue of Research Matters is now available as individual articles and as a complete issue. In this special issue we cover recent developments in Comparative Judgement research, examine the reliability and validity of the method, and consider the new possibilities it presents for future assessment practice.

We also report on how UK exam board, OCR, used comparative judgement for the first time to help set grade boundaries for several GCSEs and A Levels in autumn 2020.

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