Anastasiya Lipnevich, PhD

Anastasiya Lipnevich is Principal Measurement Scientist at NBME, where she leads work on formative assessment and the learning sciences. Prior to joining NBME, she served as a full professor of educational psychology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she continues her academic affiliation and supervision of doctoral students.

Anastasiya holds master’s degrees in clinical psychology (MS), Italian language and literature (MA), and counseling psychology (MEd). She earned her PhD in educational psychology (learning, cognition, and development concentration) from Rutgers University, where her dissertation received the Excellence in Dissertation Award from the Graduate School of Education. Following her PhD, Anastasiya completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey. She is a recipient of the New Investigator Award and the Best Article Award from Division 3 (experimental psychology) of the American Psychological Association. She is a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study of the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. She has held visiting professorships at the University of Trento, Italy; the University of Konstanz, Germany; the University of Otago, New Zealand; and the National Institute of Education, Singapore; among others.

Anastasiya is co-author or co-editor of four books: “Psychosocial Skills and School Systems in the 21st Century” (Springer, 2016); “The Cambridge Handbook of Instructional Feedback” (Cambridge University Press, 2018); “Instructional Feedback: The Power, the Promise, the Practice” (Corwin, 2023); and “Unpacking Students’ Engagement With Feedback Through Artefacts, Discourse, and Survey Findings” (Routledge, 2023). She has another book currently under contract.

Her research focuses on instructional feedback, formative assessment, alternative approaches to cognitive and noncognitive assessment, and the role of psychosocial characteristics in academic and life success.