In 2010 he presented a paper at the Association for Educational Assessment Europe, How to Assess Writing Reliably and Validly, which presented evidence of the extraordinarily high reliability that has been achieved with Comparative Judgement in assessing primary school pupils'skill in first language English writing.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, comparative judgement appeared, almost for the first time in educational assessment, as a theoretical basis or precursor for the new Latent Trait or Item Response Theories . ( Andrich, 1978 ) These models are now standard, especially in item banking and adaptive testing systems.
