2004-present Associate Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Childs, R. A., & Fung, L. (2009). “The first year they cried”: How teachers address test stress. Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 64. [Available on-line: http://www.umanitoba.ca/publications/cjeap]

Childs, R. A., & Umezawa, L. (2009). When the teacher is the test proctor. Canadian Journal of Education, 32, 618-651. [Available on-line: http://www.csse.ca/CJE]

Kwan, J., Childs, R. A., Cherryman, F., Palmer, C., & Catton, P. (2009). Admission criteria and student success in a Medical Radiation Sciences program. Journal of Allied Health, 38, 158-162.

Childs, R. A., Ram, A., & Xu, Y. (2009). Combining dual scaling with semi-structured interviews to interpret rating differences. Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 14(11). [Available on-line: http://pareonline.net]

Penfield, R. D., Gattamorta, K., & Childs, R. A. (2009). An NCME Instructional Module on using differential step functioning to refine the analysis of DIF in polytomous items. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practices, 28(1), 38-49.

Dénommé, F., & Childs, R. A. (2008). Does Ontario have an achievement gap?: The challenge of comparing the performance of students in French- and English-language schools on national and international assessments. Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 71. [Available on-line: http://www.umanitoba.ca/publications/cjeap]

Casey, C. E., & Childs, R. A. (2008). Teacher education program admission criteria and what beginning teachers need to know to be successful teachers. Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 67. [Available on-line: http://www.umanitoba.ca/publications/cjeap]

Demeris, H., Childs, R., & Jordan, A. (2007). The impact of students with disabilities included in third grade classrooms on the large-scale achievement scores of their non-identified peers. Canadian Journal of Education, 30, 609-627. [Available on-line: http://www.csse.ca/CJE]

Childs, R. A., Jaciw, A. P., & Saunders, K. (2007). Scoring guide alignment: Combining scorer judgments with item parameter estimates to set cut points. International Journal of Testing, 7, 243-254.

Childs, R. A., Dunn, J. L., van Barneveld, C., Jaciw, A. P., & McIlroy, J. H. (2007). Does it matter if you “kill” the patient or order too many tests? Scoring alternatives for a test of clinical reasoning skills. International Journal of Testing, 7, 127-139.

Childs, R. A., & Bower, B. (2006). Teacher testing and certification: An historical perspective from Ontario. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 38, 279-291.

Childs, R. A., Emenogu, B. C., Falenchuk, O., Herbert, M., & Xu, Y. (2005). Beyond viability: Are instructionally supportive accountability tests an advisable assessment option? (Commentary on “Instructionally Supportive Accountability Tests in Science: A Viable Assessment Option?”). Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 3, 191-194.

Emenogu, B. C., & Childs, R. A. (2005). Curriculum, translation, and differential functioning of geometry items. Canadian Journal of Education, 28, 123-142. [Available on-line: http://www.csse.ca/CJE]

Mu, M., & Childs, R. A. (2005). What parents know and believe about large-scale assessments. Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 37. [Available on-line: http://www.umanitoba.ca/publications/cjeap]

Childs, R. A., Ross, M. R., & Jaciw, A. P. (publication date of 2002; issue printed in September 2004). Initial teacher certification testing: Pre-service teachers’ experiences and perceptions. Canadian Journal of Education, 27, 455-475. [Available on-line: http://www.csse.ca/CJE]

Peterson, S., Childs, R., & Kennedy, K. (2004). Written feedback and scoring of sixth-grade girls’ and boys’ narrative and persuasive writing. Assessing Writing, 9, 160-180.

Childs, R. A., Jaciw, A. P., & Schneid, A. (2004). Telling teachers about tests: Education Departments’ uses of the Internet to communicate about large-scale assessments. International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 9(2). [Available on-line: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~iejll]

Childs, R. A., Elgie, S., Gadalla, T., Jaciw, A. P., & Traub, R. E. (2004). IRT-linked standard errors of weighted composites. Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation, 9(13). [Available on-line: http://pareonline.net]

Childs, R. A., & Lawson, A. (2003). What do teacher candidates know about large-scale assessments? What should they know? Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 49, 354-367.

Childs, R. A., & Jaciw, A. P. (2003). Matrix sampling of items in large-scale assessments. Practical Assessment, Research, & Evaluation, 8(16). [Available on-line: http://pareonline.net].

Childs, R. A., & Eyde, L. D. (2002). Assessment training in clinical psychology doctoral programs: What should we teach? What do we teach? Journal of Personality Assessment, 78, 130-144.

Childs, R. A., & Oppler, S. H. (2000). Implications of test dimensionality for unidimensional IRT scoring: An investigation of a high-stakes testing program. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 60, 939-955.

Eyde, L. D., & Childs, R. A. (2000). Qualifications of assessment faculty in clinical psychology doctoral programs: An analysis of APA membership data. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 31, 165-169.

Childs, R. A., Dahlstrom, W. G., Kemp, S. M., & Panter, A. T. (2000). Item response theory in personality assessment: A demonstration using the MMPI-2 Depression Scale. Assessment, 7, 37-54.

Childs, R. A. (1990). Gender bias and fairness. Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation, 2(3). [Available on-line: http://pareonline.net].

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

Childs, R. A., Dunn, J. L., van Barneveld, C., Jaciw, A. P., & McIlroy, J. H. (2003). Differential weighting of errors on a test of clinical reasoning skills. Academic Medicine, 78(Oct. Suppl.), S62-S64.

van Barneveld, C., & Childs, R. A. (2003). An evaluation of local item dependencies in the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination Part I. Academic Medicine, 78(Oct. Suppl.), S65-S67.

Book Chapters

Childs, R. A., Peterson, N. G., & Mumford, M. D. (1999). Occupational descriptor covariates: Potential sources of variance in O*NET ratings. In N. G. Peterson, M. D. Mumford, W. C. Borman, P. R. Jeanneret, & E. A. Fleishman (Eds.), An occupational information system for the 21^st century: The development of O*NET (pp. 237-245). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Mumford, M. D., Peterson, N. G., & Childs, R. A. (1999). Basic and cross-functional skills. In N. G. Peterson, M. D. Mumford, W. C. Borman, P. R. Jeanneret, & E. A. Fleishman (Eds.), An occupational information system for the 21^st century: The development of O*NET (pp. 49-69). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Mumford, M. D., Sager, C. E., Baughman, W. A., & Childs, R. A. (1999). Occupation-specific descriptors: Approaches, procedures, and findings. In N. G. Peterson, M. D. Mumford, W. C. Borman, P. R. Jeanneret, & E. A. Fleishman (Eds.), An occupational information system for the 21^st century: The development of O*NET (pp. 227-235). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Childs, R. A., Baughman, W. B., & Keil, C. T., Jr. (1997). Tests of cognitive ability. In D. L. Whetzel & G. R. Wheaton (Eds.), Applied measurement methods in industrial psychology. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.

Childs, R. A., & Lawson, A. (2001). Testing in Ontario: Questions every teacher should ask (ORBIT Monograph). Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

Technical Reports

Dings, J., Childs, R., & Kingston, N. (2002). The effects of matrix sampling on student score comparability in constructed-response and multiple-choice assessments. Washington, DC: Council of Chief State School Officers. [Available on-line: http://www.ccsso.org/content/pdfs/TILSADings.pdf].

Childs, R. A. (2001). Scoring the Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics: Alignment to levels of achievement. Prepared for the Ontario Education Quality and Accountability Office.

Childs, R. A., & Eyde, L. D. (1995). The Contract Specialist Inservice Placement Test: Development, equating, and uses (PRDC-95-01). Washington, DC: U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Childs, R. A., Outerbridge, A., & Malik, L. M. (1995). The Workplace Basic Skills Project: How do federal employees measure up? (PRDC-95-11). Washington, DC: U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Childs, R. A., & Chen, W.-H. (1999). Software note: Obtaining comparable item parameter estimates in MULTILOG and PARSCALE for two polytomous IRT models. Applied Psychological Measurement, 23, 371-379.

Childs, R. A., & Schlumpf, K. (1999). Computer program exchange: IRTGRAPH: Item response theory graphics using SAS/GRAPH. Applied Psychological Measurement, 23, 262.

Last updated November 2009