Peg Burchinal Professor Department of Education email: mburchin@uci.edu phone: 949.824.9192 office: Berkeley Place 2048 http://www.gse.uci.edu/pburchinal

Margaret R. Burchinal earned her B.S. in Psychology at Iowa State University in 1976, M.A. in Special Education at the University of North Carolina in 1978, and Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology from L.L.Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory at the University of North Carolina in 1986.

Prior to joining the faculty at UC Irvine, Burchinal was a Senior Scientist and the Director of the Design and Statistical Computing Unit at the FPG Child Development Institute and a Research Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of North Carolina. She has served as the primary statistician for many educational studies of early childhood, including the 11-state Pre-Kindergarten Evaluation for the National Center for Early Learning and Development, the longitudinal study of 1300 children in NICHD Study of Early Child Care; the 4 state evaluation of child care in the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes Study; the 3 site study of family child care homes in the Family Child Care and Relative Care Study, and the Abecedarian and CARE Projects.

As an applied methodologist, Dr. Burchinal has helped to demonstrate that sophisticated methods such as meta-analysis, fixed-effect modeling, hierarchical linear modeling, piecewise regression, and generalized estimating equations that provide educational researchers with advanced techniques to address important educational issues, such as whether child care quality measures are biased. In addition, Dr. Burchinal has pursued her substantive interest in early education as a means to improve school readiness for at-risk children, and is a leading contributor to this literature.

Prof. Burchinal currently serves as a member of the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Developmental Outcomes and Assessments for Young Children. She either has been or is serving on the Advisory Board for the National Center for Educational Statistics, Advisory Council for Head Start Research, Advisory Board for Research Bureau of the Maternal and Child Health, Technical Work Group for Early Reading First Evaluation, Advisory Board for the Los Angeles Universal Pre-Kindergarten Program, and Technical Work Group for Early Reading First Evaluation.  She also currently serves on the Editorial Board for the Child Development and Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

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