AI-enhanced Comparative Judgement
Assessing Writing in Scotland
Assessing Writing in Scotland provides you with a standardised Comparative Judgement writing assessment for P4 & P7
Plus access to all our writing resources and quizzes
Benefits of Assessing Writing in Scotland
Nationally-standardised results
Thousands of pupils take part in our writing assessments, allowing us to standardise the results. We link all our assessments over time, letting you easily measure progress.
Highly personalised and actionable feedback
Our system empowers teachers to provide highly personalised and actionable feedback to every pupil, significantly reducing workload while maximising impact. It automatically generates detailed feedback reports that merge the best of both worlds: intelligent AI feedback and direct teacher comments, through the option for audio feedback. For each pupil, the system identifies three key areas for improvement, providing them with targeted multiple-choice questions and resources to reinforce their learning.
Data you can trust
You can see all the disagreements between human and AI judges to make sure you trust the AI.
Robust metrics
We provide each pupil with key metrics: a scaled score, a writing age, and a band indicator (4-10).
Custom tasks
As well as our national tasks, you can set up custom AI-enhanced Comparative Judgement tasks on a Pay-As-You-Go basis where you can choose your own task and your own deadlines.
State-of-the-art software
We use Optical Character Recognition sheets to make it easy for you to upload handwritten work. We transcribe all the handwriting, so you can toggle between typed and handwritten scripts while you judge.
Reporting
Receive teacher audio feedback; whole-class audio feedback; AI pupil reports and AI teacher reports after every assignment.
Human in the loop
With our flexible approach, you can choose your preferred blend of human and AI judging. We recommend 10% human judgements and 90% AI. If you follow this approach, each piece of pupil writing is seen twice by a human and 18 times by AI, typically requiring just 10-15 minutes of teacher time. Teachers can also choose to leave audio comments on each piece of writing, which will be transcribed by AI and turned into a polished paragraph of written feedback.
Comparative Judgement in 4 steps
1.We set the task, so everyone is responding to the same question.
2.Upload your pupils’ scripts on our specially coded paper.
3.Judge writing, comparing two pieces of writing on screen, side-by-side to determine which is best.
4.Benchmark attainment and progress across your school, and nationally, with the information and statistics in your school's individual report.
Assessing Writing in Scotland Summary
Academic Year
The project takes place in April, and provides you with a writing assessment for P4 and P7. View the full calendar here.
Scottish Standardisation
We have been working with schools in Scottish Borders for years. This is our first project that is open to all schools in Scotland and features a dedicated Scottish standardisation.
Full Analysis
We provide you with full analysis of your school's results and the national picture, including breakdowns by gender and pupil premium.
Pupils' Progress
Our progress reports track your pupils' progress from Primary 4 to Primary 7 relative to other pupils in other schools.
Automark
Alongside the judging windows you can take part in automarked multiple-choice diagnostic tests that identify grammatical misconceptions.
The Writing Hub
The Writing Hub is where we share our Writing Progression lessons and guides. Our Writing Progression consists of ten statements about writing, with a short lesson and quiz attached to each one.
Why are schools using us?
Speed
With the workload shared among staff, the process is very quick, as teachers need to make only two comparative decisions per script.
Accuracy
Our AI provides transparent and verifiable accuracy. Unlike 'black box' systems that require manual re-marking, you can see our AI's agreement rate with your teachers. This saves time and increases your confidence in the results.
Validity
Teachers make holistic judgements based on the overall quality of the writing. We combine together thousands of teacher judgements with AI judgements to create a highly reliable scale of writing.
Extensive and in-depth reporting
Product Feature
Detailed Reporting
With our national projects you can track every pupils' progress over time and see how their performance compares to the cohort.
Product Feature
Creative Writing Stimulus
We commission imaginative and inspiring images from a top children's illustrator that bring out the best in children's writing.
Your subscription includes
Teaching Resources & CPD
The place to boost writing skills. The Writing Hub provides you with professional development webinars, teaching resources, and writing exemplars that support our new Writing Progression.
Retrieval Practice
Automark allows you to set paper-based multiple-choice quizzes and receive instant personalised feedback on them for every pupil.
Technical support and training via chat 24 hours per day
We support you every step of the way. We are online and happy to chat on the site or to talk you through any questions you have. Our dedicated support team will check all the writing you submit to ensure the process is smooth, secure and efficient.