Richard A. Feinberg, PhD
Principal Psychometrician
Richard A. Feinberg is a senior psychometrician at NBME, where he oversees examination development, scoring, reporting and operational research for various subspecialty medical boards and the USMLE®. He has also been teaching research methods as an adjunct professor since 2013 at various institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine’s School of Applied and Professional Psychology.
Richard has served on several NBME committees including the Stemmler Medical Education Research Fund and the planning committee for invitational research conferences on Timing Impact on Measurement in Education (2017) and Natural Language Processing in Assessment (2021).
He has received several awards and recognitions in the educational measurement field, including the AERA Division I Established Researcher Award (2017) and the NCME Jason Millman Promising Measurement Scholar Award (2018). He was a winner in the Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice Cover Graphic/Data Visualization Competition (2016–2019). In 2020, he co-edited a volume for the NCME book series entitled Integrating Timing Considerations to Improve Testing Practices.
Richard holds a doctorate in research methodology and evaluation from the University of Delaware. His research interests include score reporting, exam timing and improving communication through data visualizations.
