I'm Steve Dew, Director of AssessProgress and a Head Teacher at a two form entry, inner city primary school. 

I've been a Head since 2013; prior to that I'd taught in 2 Nurseries, 7 primaries and a secondary school since 2003. 

As a Head Teacher I'm acutely aware of the pressures of time and budget on schools on a daily basis, the push and pull of the system, how your context can be a great positive or huge challenge and the myriad of assessment options open to you. 

I have been using Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ) in schools to predominantly assess writing since 2017. This has mostly been running sessions in Y6 for partnership moderation purposes and in 2018-19 for formative assessment across Y1-Y6 in a group of schools in Oxfordshire.

In 2019 RM, the Education software giant, bought out the original software I had been using and I supported them in building and developing RM Compare, their Comparative Judgement software.

Since 2017 I've spoken about the power of Comparative Judgement in formative / summative assessment and for moderation in the U.K, Sweden and Madrid.