Professional knowledge of child support staff: Evidence from the New Jersey child support training program

Chien Chung Huang; Allison Blake; Richard L. Edwards; Chieh Wen Liu; Robert B. Nolan; Barbara Rusen; Dina Thompson

doi:10.1177/0193841X09353302

Professional knowledge of child support staff: Evidence from the New Jersey child support training program

Chien Chung Huang, Allison Blake, Richard L. Edwards, Chieh Wen Liu, Robert B. Nolan, Barbara Rusen, Dina Thompson

Rutgers, The State University

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Child support enforcement (CSE) has experienced dramatic changes in the last decade; however, it is not clear whether child support staff is fully aware of the development. Using data from the New Jersey child support training program (n = 530), this article aims to evaluate the professional knowledge of child support staff. The results show that participants answered 55% of the questions on CSE correctly in the pretraining assessment. After the training, the participants answered 77% of all questions correctly. The findings reveal an urgent need for training for child support staff in a rapidly changing profession.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	3-18
Number of pages	16
Journal	Evaluation Review
Volume	34
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841X09353302
State	Published - Feb 2010

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Child support enforcement
Child support staff
Evaluation
Professional knowledge
Training program

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