Gordon Stobart is Emeritus Professor of Education, Institute of Education, University College London and an Honorary Research Fellow at Oxford University.

Having worked as a secondary school teacher and an educational psychologist, he spent twenty years as a senior policy researcher, firstly as head of research at an examination board, then at government education agencies. He was a founder member of the Assessment Reform Group which has promoted Assessment for Learning (AfL) internationally.

In 2021 he authored the OECD education working paper Upper-secondary education student assessment in Scotland: A comparative perspective. He is a former editor of the international journal Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice and author of Testing times – the uses and abuses of assessment (Routledge).