Richard Rinaldo, Ph.D.
Research Areas of Interest
Program Evaluation
Survey Design
Cognitive Psychology (Current Interest: Eye Tracking)
Staffing Allocation Statistical Modelling
Education
Ph.D. Experimental Psychology (York University)
M.A. Experimental Psychology (University of Guelph)
Hons. B. A. Psychology (Laurentian University - Nipissing College)
Employment History
2018 - Present Georgian College - Program Coordinator, Research Analyst Program
2005 - 2018 Georgian College - Professor, University Partnerships Centre
2003 - 2005 Laurentian University - Assistant Professor (Contract)
1996 - 2003 Ontario Provincial Police - Manager, Statistical Research & Analysis Section
1994 - 1996 Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General and Correctional Services - Project Coordinator, Research Services Unit
1992 - 1994 Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General and Correctional Services - Senior Project Officer, Research Services Unit
Key Programming Skills
Research Projects
Rinaldo, R. (2012). Review of the Ontario Provincial Police’s Constable Staffing Models and Equitable Financing Methodology
Rinaldo, R. (2005). Public perceptions of crime, safety, community cohesiveness, and social disorder among rural and small urban centre
residents.
Rinaldo, R. (1999). An Assessment of the Factors Contributing to the Variation Among Municipality Police Officer and Crime Per Capita
Rates. Operational Planning and Research Bureau, Ontario Provincial Police.
Academic Publications: Papers Presented at Conferences
Rinaldo, R. (2005). Public perceptions of crime, safety, community cohesiveness, and social disorder among rural and small urban centre residents.
Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Toronto, Ontario
Rinaldo, R. (1996). Nonlinear Prediction Models for Criminal Recidivism.
Paper presented at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association. Toronto, Ontario
Rinaldo, R. (1995). Nonlinear Prediction Models for Criminal Recidivism: A Preliminary Investigation.
Paper presented at the 1995 Federal, Provincial and Territorial meeting on Research in the Criminal Justice filed. Ottawa, Ontario
Rinaldo, R., & Okada, R. (1992). An investigation of work identification using word fragments.
Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychnomic Society. St. Louis, Missouri.
Rinaldo, R., & Okada, R. (1992). Word length effects in the reading aloud task: A comparison of effects across blocked and mixed lists of words and pseudowords.
Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association. Quebec City, Quebec.
Davis, L., Rinaldo, R., & Doan, H. (1992). An investigation of the relationship between involvement in athletics and the stereotyping of athletes and non-athletes.
Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association. Quebec City, Quebec
Rinaldo, R. (1991). Letter length effects in the syllable judgment task: Do number of letters count?
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-Western Psychological Association. Chicago.
Rinaldo, R., & Okada, R. (1990). A test of the relationship between imagery vividness and social desirability across subject selection procedures.
Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association. Ottawa, Ontario.
Zivian, M. T., Rinaldo, R., & Okada, R. (1989). Memory performance of in-school subjects: Testing a self-selection hypothesis.
Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Rinaldo, R., & Marmurek, H. H. C. (1988). Word Length Effects in Beginning Readers A Developmental Study.
Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-Western Psychological Association. Chicago, IL.
Academic Publications: Articles
Rinaldo, R., & Okada, R. (1993). A test of the relationship between imagery vividness and social desirability across subject selection procedures. Journal of Mental Imagery, 17(3 & 4), 171-180.
Jenkins, H., Prior, S., Rinaldo, R., Wainwright-Sharp, A., Bialystok, E. (1993). Understanding text in a second language: A psychological approach to an SLA
problem. Second Language Research, 9(2), 118-139.
Marmurek, H. H. C., & Rinaldo, R. (1992). The development of letter and syllable effects in categorization, reading aloud, and picture naming. Journal of
Experimental Child Psychology. 53, 277-299.
Program Evaluation Studies
Rinaldo, R. (1994) Short term sick leave credit utilization by employees of the correctional services division of the ministry of the solicitor general and correctional services. Research Services Unit: Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General and Correctional Services.
Rinaldo, R. (April, 1993) Investment strategy assessment for correctional services. Research Services Unit: Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General and Correctional Services.
Rinaldo, R. & Field, G. (November, 1994). An assessment of the impact of the investment strategy upon correctional services. Research Services Unit: Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General and Correctional Services.
Computer Applications
Rinaldo, R. (2015). Development of the Police Resource Model (PRM) Version 2.0. Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General and Correctional Services.
Saltstone, R., & Rinaldo, R. (1993). A computer program for determination of sample sizes, [Computer program]. North Bay, Ontario: Research Services Unit, Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General and Correctional Services.
Rinaldo, R. (1993). A SAS program to extract data from the Central Attendance Reporting System (CARS). [Computer program]. North Bay, Ontario: Research Services Unit, Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General and Correctional Services.