No More Marking

Overview

No More Marking is the assessment company introduced by Daisy Christodoulou in the episode’s discussion of comparative judgment.

Current Profile

The company is presented as using repeated comparisons between two pieces of extended writing. Teachers choose the better response in each pair, and the aggregated judgments produce a scale. The model aims to avoid some inconsistency and workload associated with detailed rubric marking while retaining human judgment about overall quality.

Key Characteristics

• Applies pairwise comparison to essays and extended writing.
• Aggregates many simple judgments into a measurement scale.
• Seeks faster and more consistent assessment than independent rubric scoring.
• Retains human evaluative judgment rather than replacing it with a fixed-answer test.

Evidence

• Method: 84. Exams describes teachers comparing pairs of work and the judgments being combined into a scale.
• Claimed benefits: 84. Exams reports Christodoulou’s claims of improved reliability, validity, and speed.

Qualifications

The episode does not provide the company’s ownership, product history, implementation details, validation datasets, pricing, or independent evaluations. The benefit claims remain source-scoped.

What Changed

• Created a bounded profile of the company and the assessment method attributed to it.

Relationships

• Daisy Christodoulou - specialist who introduces the company and its method.
• Comparative Judgment Assessment - assessment approach the company applies.
• Exam Standardization-Validity Tradeoff - broader problem the approach attempts to navigate.