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Recently
completed studies
Evaluating
the Effectiveness of the North Carolina New Employee
Orientation Training for Child Care Professionals.
This project includes 15 research sites in North Carolina
and 68 participants.
This
pilot study examined the effectiveness of the North
Carolina New Employee Orientation Training for Child
Care Professionals, a computer-based orientation training
for new child care employees entitled developed from
information required by the North Carolina Division
of Child Development
The
study included fifteen child care programs and 69 child
care administrators and teachers from a variety of locations
in NC. A stratified sampling procedure was used to select
programs from the mountain, Piedmont, and coastal regions
of NC, as well as programs in rural, urban, and suburban
locations.
To
study the effectiveness of the training, program administrators
completed an administrator survey, and teachers and
teaching assistants completed a teacher survey. Participants
were asked to rate questions focused on training content
and training format.
The
results indicate the NC New Employee Training can be
effectively used to train new child care teachers and
teacher assistants. The accessibility and flexibility
of the training CD-Rom format gives administrators and
teachers greater latitude in training times and locations
while not sacrificing quality of material learned.
The
NC Division of Child Development has approved the CD-Rom
training since the completion of the study.
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