Gordon Stobart is Professor of Education at the University of London Institute of Education. His research has focused on assessment, national systems and policies and classroom based assessment - especially Assessment for Learning. He has been involved in several assessment-related projects funded by the Nuffield Foundation and the UK Department for Education and Skills. He is a founder member of the UK Assessment Reform Group and has recently published ‘Testing times – the uses and abuses of assessment’ (Routledge 2008) which seeks to reclaim assessment as a constructive activity which can encourage deeper learning.