Professor John Gardner

Professor John Gardner, from the Department of Education at Queen’s University, Belfast, has been appointed to the Centre as a Visiting Professor for two years from April 2009. Professor Gardner is a leading researcher and scholar who has published widely in the area of assessment for learning and teacher assessment. These subjects are issues at the heart of current policy discussions in education system reform and the relationship between models of teacher assessment and international and national testing regimes is a significant element of the work the Centre is engaged with as it pursues work on education standards and standards-referenced reporting systems. John is also interested in the public understanding of assessment which is very relevant to the development of education policy as it is occurring in so many developed and developing systems.