Ruth A Childs
Biographic Data
| ID | 5167235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth A Childs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth A |
| FAMILY NAME | Childs |
| SIGNATURE | CHILDS R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2687-0955 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The propensities and purposes of racial and ethnic student data collection in Ontario universities
The postsecondary qualifications of Canadian workers
This article reports on a study investigating the link between education and work. Instead of looking at the labour outcomes of graduates, the study examined the qualifications held by workers in technician- and professional-level jobs from three types of occupational fields: regulated, applied, and general. The approach shifts the focus away from the supply of qualifications to the way qualifications are used in the workplace. The findings show …
Infusing Self-Advocacy Training Into Physical Education
Physical education is the perfect place to learn self-advocacy skills. Through the practice of self-advocacy, children will find and utilize their voices in the classroom and beyond. Self-advocacy teaches students how to speak up, make life decisions, gather information, find those who will support them in their journey, know their rights and responsibilities, solve problems, reach out to others when they need help and friendship, and learn about…
Deciding Whether to Respond
This study investigates nonresponse on Ontario’s Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics – in particular, whether or not students responded to all multiple-choice or all open-response items in two test booklets. Whether students responded to all items of one type (multiple-choice or open-response) by booklet (for the first or second day of testing) was modeled, with and without proportion correct scores by item type as covariates, using latent class an…
The Compass study
COMPASS is the first study with the infrastructure to robustly evaluate the impact that changes in multiple school-level programs, policies, and BE characteristics within or surrounding a school might have on multiple youth health behaviours or outcomes over time. COMPASS will provide valuable new insight for planning, tailoring and targeting of school-based prevention initiatives where they are most likely to have impact
The Effect of Missing Data Treatment on Mantel-Haenszel DIF Detection
Most implementations of the Mantel-Haenszel differential item functioning procedure delete records with missing responses or replace missing responses with scores of 0. These treatments of missing data make strong assumptions about the causes of the missing data. Such assumptions may be particularly problematic when groups differ in their patterns of nonresponse. Using both real data from Ontario students taking the English- and French-language v…
Teacher Testing and Certification
Certification tests for elementary teachers in Ontario were introduced in 1871 and in 2002. Although the provincial government’s stated goals for the testing programs were similar, the 2002 program was opposed by the initial teacher education programs and the teachers’ associations, but the 1871 program was not. The authors argue that much of this difference can be attributed to the relationship of the tests to other requirements for certificatio…
Introduction Measurement for the Social Sciences
What Do Teacher Candidates Know About Large-Scale Assessments? What Should They Know
As states and provinces develop large-scale assessment programs linked to their curricula, teachers are increasingly expected to interpret the assessment results and to explain them to parents. The challenge for teachers is especially great in Ontario, which began developing an assessment program in 1996 after almost three decades without provincially mandated testing. Three hundred and sixty teacher candidates completed a questionnaire on their …
Implications of Test Dimensionality for Unidimensional Irt Scoring
Determining whether a test violates the assumption of unidimensionality is an important precursor to item response theory (IRT) analysis. However, a test’s unidimensionality or nonunidimensionality may be a matter of degree, and the implications of the degree of nonunidimensionality may depend on how the test is analyzed and how the results are to be used. This study examined the dimensionality of a high-stakes graduate training selection test an…
The Effects of Item by Item Feedback Given During an Ability Test
S ummary . Answer‐until‐correct (AUC) is a procedure for providing item by item feedback during a multiple‐choice test, giving an increased range of scores. The performance of a group of children on an ability test using AUC procedures was compared with a group using conventional instructions. AUC scores considerably enhanced reliability but not validity. A comparison of item analyses for the two groups showed no evidence of learning during the t…
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The Effects of Item by Item Feedback Given During an Ability Test
S ummary . Answer‐until‐correct (AUC) is a procedure for providing item by item feedback during a multiple‐choice test, giving an increased range of scores. The performance of a group of children on an ability test using AUC procedures was compared with a group using conventional instructions. AUC scores considerably enhanced reliability but not validity. A comparison of item analyses for the two groups showed no evidence of learning during the t…
Implications of Test Dimensionality for Unidimensional Irt Scoring
Determining whether a test violates the assumption of unidimensionality is an important precursor to item response theory (IRT) analysis. However, a test’s unidimensionality or nonunidimensionality may be a matter of degree, and the implications of the degree of nonunidimensionality may depend on how the test is analyzed and how the results are to be used. This study examined the dimensionality of a high-stakes graduate training selection test an…
Introduction Measurement for the Social Sciences
What Do Teacher Candidates Know About Large-Scale Assessments? What Should They Know
As states and provinces develop large-scale assessment programs linked to their curricula, teachers are increasingly expected to interpret the assessment results and to explain them to parents. The challenge for teachers is especially great in Ontario, which began developing an assessment program in 1996 after almost three decades without provincially mandated testing. Three hundred and sixty teacher candidates completed a questionnaire on their …
Teacher Testing and Certification
Certification tests for elementary teachers in Ontario were introduced in 1871 and in 2002. Although the provincial government’s stated goals for the testing programs were similar, the 2002 program was opposed by the initial teacher education programs and the teachers’ associations, but the 1871 program was not. The authors argue that much of this difference can be attributed to the relationship of the tests to other requirements for certificatio…
The Effect of Missing Data Treatment on Mantel-Haenszel DIF Detection
Most implementations of the Mantel-Haenszel differential item functioning procedure delete records with missing responses or replace missing responses with scores of 0. These treatments of missing data make strong assumptions about the causes of the missing data. Such assumptions may be particularly problematic when groups differ in their patterns of nonresponse. Using both real data from Ontario students taking the English- and French-language v…
The Compass study
COMPASS is the first study with the infrastructure to robustly evaluate the impact that changes in multiple school-level programs, policies, and BE characteristics within or surrounding a school might have on multiple youth health behaviours or outcomes over time. COMPASS will provide valuable new insight for planning, tailoring and targeting of school-based prevention initiatives where they are most likely to have impact
Deciding Whether to Respond
This study investigates nonresponse on Ontario’s Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics – in particular, whether or not students responded to all multiple-choice or all open-response items in two test booklets. Whether students responded to all items of one type (multiple-choice or open-response) by booklet (for the first or second day of testing) was modeled, with and without proportion correct scores by item type as covariates, using latent class an…
Infusing Self-Advocacy Training Into Physical Education
Physical education is the perfect place to learn self-advocacy skills. Through the practice of self-advocacy, children will find and utilize their voices in the classroom and beyond. Self-advocacy teaches students how to speak up, make life decisions, gather information, find those who will support them in their journey, know their rights and responsibilities, solve problems, reach out to others when they need help and friendship, and learn about…
The postsecondary qualifications of Canadian workers
This article reports on a study investigating the link between education and work. Instead of looking at the labour outcomes of graduates, the study examined the qualifications held by workers in technician- and professional-level jobs from three types of occupational fields: regulated, applied, and general. The approach shifts the focus away from the supply of qualifications to the way qualifications are used in the workplace. The findings show …
The propensities and purposes of racial and ethnic student data collection in Ontario universities
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