Dr. McCoach is a professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut, and program chair of the Measurement, Evaluation, and Assessment Program.

She has co-authored over 75 journal articles, book chapters, and books, including Instrument Development in the Affective Domain (3rd edition), and Beyond Gifted Education. Dr. McCoach served as the founding co-editor for The Journal of Advanced Academics, and and as co-editor of Gifted Child Quarterly. She serves as a Co-Principal Investigator and Research Methodologist on several federally-funded research grants, and she served as the Research Methodologist for the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented for over seven years.