M Tremblay
Biographic Data
| ID | 27896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Tremblay |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Tremblay |
| SIGNATURE | TREMBLAY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8291-5604 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Complex Identities, Relationality, and the Art of Listening
This article traces a personal and professional journey toward understanding Métis identity and positionality as an evaluator, academic, and community member. Grounded in lived experience as a white-presenting Métis woman, reflections are provided on the complexities of identity, the tensions of belonging, and the responsibilities of engaging in research and evaluation by and with Indigenous peoples. Stories of learning, vulnerability, and resist…
First Nations and Métis Employees’ Experiences
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) Calls to Action stipulates to increase and retain the number of First Nations, Métis and Inuit employees in the healthcare sector. While many non-First Nations, Métis and Inuit organizations recognize the importance of this call, many organizations often struggle with how to reflect and proceed effectively, humbly, and with intention. Retention of First Nations, Métis and Inuit employees req…
Overcoming barriers to childhood vaccination in a First Nations community
First Nations children in Canada experience lower vaccination coverage compared to the general population, yet research on vaccination confidence, access, and uptake in on-reserve communities remains limited. This study examines barriers to childhood vaccination and the role of the Early Years (EY) home visiting program in influencing uptake in Maskwacis, a First Nations Community in central Alberta. Guided by community-based participatory resear…
L’engagement d’élèves du primaire et du secondaire dans l’évaluation par les pairs renforcée par le numérique
This article explores the integration of digital platforms into assessment in aid of learning (formative assessment), focusing on new alignments between learning goals and student engagement in providing feedback to peers. The theoretical framework draws on sociocultural perspectives on learning that emphasize the importance of context in students' active classroom participation and engagement. A collaborative research methodology (design-based r…
Co-developing culturally grounded early years programming with Indigenous communities
Although early childhood programs designed for Indigenous children exist in Canada and elsewhere, there remains a need for program development and implementation to be sustainable, evidence-based, and foundationally grounded in (rather than peripherally inclusive of) Indigenous cultures and languages. Overall, little is known about how to develop sustainable, communitygrounded early childhood programs that address the structural inequities and he…
Therapist and client perceptions of empathy in simulated teletherapy sessions
Empathy is thought to be reduced in videoconference (VC) compared to face-to-face (F2F) therapy. To empirically test this possibility, therapist and client ratings of empathy and its correlates were examined in VC and F2F sessions. Forty-eight students in clinical training programs were randomly assigned to the role of ‘therapist’ or ‘client’, forming 24 dyads. Each dyad completed a simulated clinical session in F2F and in VC and reported on empa…
Evaluation Capacity Building
There is a growing need for evaluation capacity building (ECB) in community organizations; however, learning opportunities for both organizations and post-secondary students are limited, particularly opportunities to apply evaluation concepts in practice. This practice note describes four initiatives and highlights the ways in which experiential learning can be leveraged through community-university collaborations to provide responsive, hands-on …
Strengthening Evaluation Capacity Building Practice Through Competition
Despite the attention evaluation capacity building (ECB) has received over the past several decades, surprisingly few opportunities for learning about ECB exist. In response to this need, the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University, in collaboration with ECB scholars across Canada, created a case competition focused exclusively on ECB—the Evaluation Capacity Case Challenge (EC 3 ). Twenty individuals interested in learning about ECB…
Learning From Evaluation Data
Evaluation competitions, a process that has existed for more than three decades, are a mechanism to promote program evaluation and enhance evaluation capacity. Integrating these competitions into evaluation education extends traditional teaching models beyond theory-dense learning contexts. This practice note delves into the Evaluation Case Competition Challenge (EC 3 ), a case challenge designed to advance knowledge on evaluation capacity buildi…
Developing Evaluation Capacity Building Competencies
In 2023, McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy hosted the inaugural Evaluation Capacity Case Challenge (EC 3 ) competition with a cohort of 19 selected graduate students and early-career professionals studying or working in Canada or the United States. It was a multifaceted learning opportunity for participants to expand evaluation capacity building (ECB) competencies and served as a bridge between formal education and real-world p…
Meeting the Challenge
This practice note shares key learnings from the inaugural Evaluation Capacity Case Challenge (EC 3 ) held by the Max Bell School of Public Policy in April 2023. The purpose is to give readers an opportunity to consider how to shape evaluation capacity in general and within a municipal context. Evaluation capacity building (ECB) is a multifaceted concept to support shared learning about and understanding of evaluation. Strands of learning about E…
Exploring how the Covid-19 pandemic impacted teacher expectations in schools
Staff perspectives on the successful families program model
Providing support to address the systemic barriers that teen families face is a logical step toward improving their health and well-being. One area where teen families face multiple obstacles is accessing safe, secure, affordable housing. This paper describes a unique, innovative model of supportive housing developed in combination with wraparound supports, provided to teen parents in Edmonton, Canada. As part of a larger community-based particip…
Syrian refugees in Canada
Purpose Since March 2020, the global COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted refugees by compounding preexisting and systemic health, social and economic inequities. In Canada, approximately 50,000 Syrian refugees arrived between 2015 and 2020 and were in the process of rebuilding their lives when the pandemic started. This study aims to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for Syrian refugees in Canada and identify supports need…
Parenting Culture(s)
What is it to be “an ideal parent”? Does the answer differ across countries and social classes? To answer these questions in a way that minimizes bias and ethnocentrism, we used open-ended questions to explore ideal-parent beliefs among 8,357 mothers and 3,517 fathers from 37 countries. Leximancer Semantic Network Analysis was utilized to first determine parenting culture zones (i.e., countries with shared ideal-parent beliefs) and then extract t…
Un autre texte; des propos au regard étroit similaire
Ce texte est une réponse à celui intitulé « Les conclusions formulées par Boyer et Bissonnette en 2021 sont valables en 2023 : une réponse au texte de Allaire et ses collègues (2022) », rédigé par Steve Bissonnette (2023), lequel répondait à « Un enseignement en ligne presque invisible : une réponse à Christian Boyer et Steve Bissonnette » (Allaire et al., 2022). Nous soutenons que les propos du texte de Bissonnette (2023) témoignent d’une mécomp…
Profiles of Parental Burnout Around the Globe
Parental burnout (PB) is a pervasive phenomenon. Parenting is embedded in cultural values, and previous research has shown the role of individualism in PB. In this paper, we reanalyze previously collected data to identify profiles based on the four dimensions of PB, and explore whether these profiles vary across countries’ levels of collectivistic-individualistic (COL-IND) values. Our sample comprised 16,885 individuals from 36 countries (73% wom…
Client Perceptions of an Fasd-Informed Indigenous Restorative Justice Program
Individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) can experience multiple layers of adversity that increase vulnerability to justice involvement. Given the systemic overrepresentation of Indigenous Peoples in the justice system, community-based interventions are important for supporting Indigenous individuals with FASD who are justice-involved, yet little is known about individual experiences with such interventions. In this community-based…
Understanding the needs of justice‐involved adults with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in an Indigenous community
Individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) experience a range of neurodevelopmental challenges, often compounded by social and environmental adversity. One of the most concerning outcomes that can be associated with FASD is involvement in the justice system, where individuals with FASD are vastly over‐represented. Individuals with FASD who are both justice‐involved and Indigenous experience added layers of marginalization. In this co…
Gender Equality and Maternal Burnout
In Western countries, recent decades have witnessed a revolution toward gender equality. Inequalities have been greatly reduced in areas such as education or employment. Because inequalities lead to distress, this development has largely benefited women. One notable exception is the realm of parenting, which has remained rife with inequalities even in the most egalitarian countries. We hypothesized that experiencing inequality in parenting when o…
Un enseignement en ligne presque invisible
Ce texte apporte un regard critique empirique à des études citées en preuve d’inefficacité de l’enseignement en ligne. Compte tenu de l’importance de considérer les pratiques et l’activité des acteurs avec une certaine finesse lorsqu’on analyse ou évalue tout dispositif éducatif, nous avons analysé quelles informations de cet ordre sont considérées dans quelques vastes études citées pour leur rigueur scientifique. Nous avons procédé à une analyse…
Parental Burnout Around the Globe
Des interventions en français réinvesties dans la résolution de problèmes en mathématiques au primaire
La résolution de problèmes est un incontournable dans l’enseignement et l’apprentissage des mathématiques. La co-construction d’interventions visant à développer un contrôle chez les élèves lors de la résolution de problèmes est au cœur de deux projets de recherche collaborative impliquant divers intervenant(e)s du milieu. Les enseignant(e)s y jouent un rôle fondamental pour amener leurs élèves à réfléchir sur leurs actions posées et à poser. Ces…
Using Photovoice to Explore Teen Parents’ Perspectives on Raising Healthy Children
Given the unique challenges and strengths of teen parents, specialized supports are needed to help teen families reach their full potential. This study explored, from the perspectives of teen parents involved in a supportive housing program, what helps teen parents raise their children in healthy ways. Aligned with a community-based participatory research approach, we used the photovoice method. Two 6-month rounds of photovoice were conducted, du…
Building School Capacity to Support Students with Complex Needs Through the Wellness, Resiliency, and Partnerships (WRaP) Project
Schools across the province of Alberta are increasingly diverse in terms of student backgrounds, circumstances, and needs (Alberta Education, 2017). In order to respond to the needs of a diverse student population, many schools are providing supports targeted to children and youth identified as being at risk for poor outcomes. The Wellness, Resiliency, and Partnerships (WRaP) project, initiated in 2009, was born out of recognition for the need to…
Profiles of Parental Burnout Around the Globe
Parental burnout (PB) is a pervasive phenomenon. Parenting is embedded in cultural values, and previous research has shown the role of individualism in PB. In this paper, we reanalyze previously collected data to identify profiles based on the four dimensions of PB, and explore whether these profiles vary across countries’ levels of collectivistic-individualistic (COL-IND) values. Our sample comprised 16,885 individuals from 36 countries (73% wom…
Using Photovoice to Explore Teen Parents’ Perspectives on Raising Healthy Children
Given the unique challenges and strengths of teen parents, specialized supports are needed to help teen families reach their full potential. This study explored, from the perspectives of teen parents involved in a supportive housing program, what helps teen parents raise their children in healthy ways. Aligned with a community-based participatory research approach, we used the photovoice method. Two 6-month rounds of photovoice were conducted, du…
Stress parental, soutien social, comportements de l’enfant et fréquentation des services de garde
Cette étude examine les taux de problèmes de comportement internalisés et externalisés des enfants et des indices de stress parental et du réseau de soutien social rapportés par les parents d’un échantillon d’enfants et de familles en fonction du type de service de garde fréquenté par les enfants. Elle vise aussi à identifier si les mêmes variables diffèrent en fonction de l’utilisation de divers types de services de garde et de la présence de di…
Hepatitis A vaccination during an outbreak among gay men in Montréal, Canada, 1995–1997
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate an intervention designed to curtail an outbreak of hepatitis A among gay men, especially the young and sexually active, by promoting their free vaccination. DESIGN: The study analysed routine passive surveillance data, carried out questionnaire and serological surveys of vaccinees, and surveys among the target population in non-clinical venues. SETTING AND INTERVENTION: 15 000 free doses of hepatitis A vaccine were ma…
A comparison of direct vs. self‐report measures for assessing height, weight and body mass index
Obesity is a rapidly increasing public health problem, with surveillance most often based on self‐reported values of height and weight. We conducted a systematic review to determine what empirical evidence exists regarding the agreement between objective (measured) and subjective (reported) measures in assessing height, weight and body mass index (BMI). Five electronic databases were searched to identify observational and experimental studies on …
Stress parental, soutien social, comportements de l’enfant et fréquentation des services de garde
Cette étude examine les taux de problèmes de comportement internalisés et externalisés des enfants et des indices de stress parental et du réseau de soutien social rapportés par les parents d’un échantillon d’enfants et de familles en fonction du type de service de garde fréquenté par les enfants. Elle vise aussi à identifier si les mêmes variables diffèrent en fonction de l’utilisation de divers types de services de garde et de la présence de di…
Development of a Clinical Practice Model for Serving Clients with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Aboriginal Perspectives on Social-Emotional Competence in Early Childhood
Gaining an understanding of how best to support the development of Aboriginal children is important in promoting positive social, emotional, educational, and health outcomes. The purpose of the current study was to identify the most important elements of healthy development for Aboriginal children, with a particular focus on social-emotional development. Focus groups were conducted with 37 Aboriginal Canadians, including parents, service provider…
Community Setting as a Determinant of Health for Indigenous Peoples Living in the Prairie Provinces of Canada
Indigenous Peoples in Canada experience disproportionately high tuberculosis (TB) rates, and those living in the Prairie Provinces have the most advanced TB presentations (Health Canada, 2009). The community settings (i.e., urban centres, non-remote reserves, remote reserves, and isolated reserves) where Indigenous Peoples live can help explain high TB rates. Through qualitative description, we identify how community setting influenced Indigenous…
Physical fitness, physical activity, sedentary behavior and psychological predictors in Chilean adolescents
The purpose of this study was to compare the levels of physical fitness, physical activity, sedentary behavior and psychological predictors of physical activity among male and female Chilean adolescents. A total of 70 male and 56 female Chilean adolescents (aged 13.00 ± 1.00 years old) were assessed for physical fitness (body composition and cardiorespiratory fitness), habitual physical activity and sedentary behavior (GT3X accelerometer) and psy…
Using developmental evaluation and community-based participatory research to develop a model of supportive housing
Niveles de actividad física y sedentarismo de los adolescentes en recreos naturales vs. tradicionales
The aim of this work was to compare students’ physical activity and sedentary levels between two high schools, one with a natural playground and the other with a traditional one, according to the recess periods (mid-morning and lunchtime) and the sex of students. The sample consisted of all the students attending their school playground at the time of the measurement. The System for Observing Play and Leisure Activity in Youth (SOPLAY) was used t…
I Can But I Shall Not Always Be Empathic
Empathy, a core process for social interactions, is the capacity to understand and share others' mental states and emotions. Each individual is thought to have a maximum level of empathy (empathic ability) and a spontaneous tendency to express it (empathic propensity), which can be affected by multiple factors. Two within-subject studies were conducted to assess the malleability of empathy by modulating contextual factors and measuring their inte…
Parental Burnout Around the Globe
Des interventions en français réinvesties dans la résolution de problèmes en mathématiques au primaire
La résolution de problèmes est un incontournable dans l’enseignement et l’apprentissage des mathématiques. La co-construction d’interventions visant à développer un contrôle chez les élèves lors de la résolution de problèmes est au cœur de deux projets de recherche collaborative impliquant divers intervenant(e)s du milieu. Les enseignant(e)s y jouent un rôle fondamental pour amener leurs élèves à réfléchir sur leurs actions posées et à poser. Ces…
Using Photovoice to Explore Teen Parents’ Perspectives on Raising Healthy Children
Given the unique challenges and strengths of teen parents, specialized supports are needed to help teen families reach their full potential. This study explored, from the perspectives of teen parents involved in a supportive housing program, what helps teen parents raise their children in healthy ways. Aligned with a community-based participatory research approach, we used the photovoice method. Two 6-month rounds of photovoice were conducted, du…
Building School Capacity to Support Students with Complex Needs Through the Wellness, Resiliency, and Partnerships (WRaP) Project
Schools across the province of Alberta are increasingly diverse in terms of student backgrounds, circumstances, and needs (Alberta Education, 2017). In order to respond to the needs of a diverse student population, many schools are providing supports targeted to children and youth identified as being at risk for poor outcomes. The Wellness, Resiliency, and Partnerships (WRaP) project, initiated in 2009, was born out of recognition for the need to…
Understanding the needs of justice‐involved adults with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in an Indigenous community
Individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) experience a range of neurodevelopmental challenges, often compounded by social and environmental adversity. One of the most concerning outcomes that can be associated with FASD is involvement in the justice system, where individuals with FASD are vastly over‐represented. Individuals with FASD who are both justice‐involved and Indigenous experience added layers of marginalization. In this co…
Gender Equality and Maternal Burnout
In Western countries, recent decades have witnessed a revolution toward gender equality. Inequalities have been greatly reduced in areas such as education or employment. Because inequalities lead to distress, this development has largely benefited women. One notable exception is the realm of parenting, which has remained rife with inequalities even in the most egalitarian countries. We hypothesized that experiencing inequality in parenting when o…
Un enseignement en ligne presque invisible
Ce texte apporte un regard critique empirique à des études citées en preuve d’inefficacité de l’enseignement en ligne. Compte tenu de l’importance de considérer les pratiques et l’activité des acteurs avec une certaine finesse lorsqu’on analyse ou évalue tout dispositif éducatif, nous avons analysé quelles informations de cet ordre sont considérées dans quelques vastes études citées pour leur rigueur scientifique. Nous avons procédé à une analyse…
Parenting Culture(s)
What is it to be “an ideal parent”? Does the answer differ across countries and social classes? To answer these questions in a way that minimizes bias and ethnocentrism, we used open-ended questions to explore ideal-parent beliefs among 8,357 mothers and 3,517 fathers from 37 countries. Leximancer Semantic Network Analysis was utilized to first determine parenting culture zones (i.e., countries with shared ideal-parent beliefs) and then extract t…
Un autre texte; des propos au regard étroit similaire
Ce texte est une réponse à celui intitulé « Les conclusions formulées par Boyer et Bissonnette en 2021 sont valables en 2023 : une réponse au texte de Allaire et ses collègues (2022) », rédigé par Steve Bissonnette (2023), lequel répondait à « Un enseignement en ligne presque invisible : une réponse à Christian Boyer et Steve Bissonnette » (Allaire et al., 2022). Nous soutenons que les propos du texte de Bissonnette (2023) témoignent d’une mécomp…
Profiles of Parental Burnout Around the Globe
Parental burnout (PB) is a pervasive phenomenon. Parenting is embedded in cultural values, and previous research has shown the role of individualism in PB. In this paper, we reanalyze previously collected data to identify profiles based on the four dimensions of PB, and explore whether these profiles vary across countries’ levels of collectivistic-individualistic (COL-IND) values. Our sample comprised 16,885 individuals from 36 countries (73% wom…
Client Perceptions of an Fasd-Informed Indigenous Restorative Justice Program
Individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) can experience multiple layers of adversity that increase vulnerability to justice involvement. Given the systemic overrepresentation of Indigenous Peoples in the justice system, community-based interventions are important for supporting Indigenous individuals with FASD who are justice-involved, yet little is known about individual experiences with such interventions. In this community-based…
Co-developing culturally grounded early years programming with Indigenous communities
Although early childhood programs designed for Indigenous children exist in Canada and elsewhere, there remains a need for program development and implementation to be sustainable, evidence-based, and foundationally grounded in (rather than peripherally inclusive of) Indigenous cultures and languages. Overall, little is known about how to develop sustainable, communitygrounded early childhood programs that address the structural inequities and he…
Therapist and client perceptions of empathy in simulated teletherapy sessions
Empathy is thought to be reduced in videoconference (VC) compared to face-to-face (F2F) therapy. To empirically test this possibility, therapist and client ratings of empathy and its correlates were examined in VC and F2F sessions. Forty-eight students in clinical training programs were randomly assigned to the role of ‘therapist’ or ‘client’, forming 24 dyads. Each dyad completed a simulated clinical session in F2F and in VC and reported on empa…
Evaluation Capacity Building
There is a growing need for evaluation capacity building (ECB) in community organizations; however, learning opportunities for both organizations and post-secondary students are limited, particularly opportunities to apply evaluation concepts in practice. This practice note describes four initiatives and highlights the ways in which experiential learning can be leveraged through community-university collaborations to provide responsive, hands-on …
Strengthening Evaluation Capacity Building Practice Through Competition
Despite the attention evaluation capacity building (ECB) has received over the past several decades, surprisingly few opportunities for learning about ECB exist. In response to this need, the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University, in collaboration with ECB scholars across Canada, created a case competition focused exclusively on ECB—the Evaluation Capacity Case Challenge (EC 3 ). Twenty individuals interested in learning about ECB…
Psychology (22 works) · Political science (19 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (6 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Humanities (5 works)