J. Douglas Willms is a professor and director of the Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy at the University of New Brunswick (UNB). He holds the Canada Research Chair in Human Development at UNB and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the International Academy of Education.
Dr. Willms has published more than 200 research articles and monographs pertaining to youth literacy, children’s health, the accountability of schooling systems, and the assessment of national reforms. He is the editor of Vulnerable Children: Findings from Canada’s National Longitudinal Study of Children and Youth, which received the Canadian Policy Research Award in 2002, and the author of Student Engagement at School: A Sense of Belonging and Participation (Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) and Monitoring School Performance: A Guide for Educators (Falmer Press, 1992). He played a lead role in developing the questionnaires for Canada’s National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) and the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Recently, he and his colleagues designed the Early Years Evaluation (EYE), an instrument for the direct assessment of children’s developmental skills at ages three to six, and Tell Them From Me, an evaluation system for the continuous monitoring of school climate, student engagement and wellness. Dr. Willms is known for his training of new investigators in the analysis of complex multilevel data. He regularly conducts workshops on multilevel modeling across Canada and throughout Asia, Europe and South America. He also established the New Investigators Network, an interdisciplinary, collaborative network of Canada’s top social science researchers in the field of human development. His current interests include the examination of family, school and community factors that contribute to the health and well-being of children and adolescents, and the use of continuous monitoring for evaluating school reforms.
Findings from Canada’s National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth
(University of Alberta Press / HRDC, 2002) ISBN 0888643314 / 978-0888643315
Student Engagement at School: A Sense of Belonging and Participation: Results from PISA 2000
(OECD Publishing, 2003) ISBN 9789264018921
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