Noreen Yazejian, PhD, is the interim associate director for research and a senior research scientist at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG). She has extensive experience conducting large-scale, multi-site research and evaluation studies and assessing the quality of practices in early education settings and the effects of variation in quality on children, particularly for vulnerable children. Yazejian's research focuses on early childhood program evaluation, including work related to professional development interventions, models of programming birth to five, home visiting, quality rating and improvement systems, and early childhood language and literacy.

Yazejian serves as principal investigator on a number of FPG projects, including a large-scale evaluation of the Educare Network, a consortium of 25 Educare schools across the country.