Comparing Efficacy of Online and In-Person Versions of a Training on U.S. Federal Wage and Hour Child Labor Laws and Hazardous Occupations Orders for Secondary School Professionals

摘要

BackgroundThe New Jersey Safe Schools Program (NJSS) offers courses required for secondary school vocational–career–technical education teachers to become school-sponsored structured learning experience supervisors. The “Federal Wage and Hour and Child Labor Laws, Regulations and Hazardous Order Course” (FWH) was originally conducted in-person by U.S. Department of Labor-Wage and Hour Division from 2005 to Summer 2013, and then NJSS began conducting this course in-person (October 2013–April 2015). Staring in March 2015, this course was conducted online; beta-/pilot tests were conducted in Winter 2014–2015. Starting in May 2015, this course was offered exclusively online. This paper analyzes data from the in-person and online versions of the FWH, including overall course evaluation data comparing two versions with similar questions/constructs.