Computer-Based Continuing Education Training

PURPOSE: This rule establishes the requirements for computer-based training. (1) Any source approved to provide Continuing Law Enforcement Education (CLEE) training pursuant to 11 CSR 75-15.010(4) may offer interactive, computer-based training. (2) Computer-based training shall be controlled by an interactive computer program and shall require the student to participate by making responses influencing the pace and/or the direction of the training involving a mode of operation in which there is an exchange of information between the computer and the student. (3) Computer-based training shall meet all requirements of 11 CSR 75-15.020. In addition, the training certificate presented to each trainee shall bear the phrase “ComputerBased Training.” (4) A computer-based training course shall be considered a complete and detailed lesson plan within itself. Source documents may be identified within the computer course. When a course is no longer available via computer, the provider shall maintain a printed copy of the lesson plan in the course file retained pursuant to 11 CSR 75-15.020(5). (5) The course administrator shall attest to actual attendance and may ascertain attendance by any reasonably certain method, as determined by the Director, including tracking by the computer course software, if the tracking meets the standard of this rule. The attendance policy and methodology for ascertaining attendance shall be included in the course record file. (6) The evaluation plan may include assessment of the student’s mastery of the training objectives as part of computer program or may do so by an examination separate from the computer program, such as a written or practical examination. To successfully complete a computer-based training course, a trainee must achieve a test score of at least seventy percent (70%) correct. (7) The number of CLEE credit hours for a computer-based training course shall be determined as follows: (A) A test group of at least ten (10) randomly selected peace officers shall complete the course in a timed manner. (B) The test group times shall be placed in rank order. (C) The time required for successful completion of the course by eighty percent (80%) of the test group, rounded down to a convenient time interval, shall be the credit hour value of the course. (D) The credit hour value of the course may be determined by any other method approved in advance by the Director. AUTHORITY: sections 590.030.5(1), 590.050, and 590.190, RSMo Supp. 2007.* Original rule filed May 1, 2002, effective Oct. 30, 2002. Amended: Filed July 1, 2008, effective Dec. 30, 2008. *Original authority: 590.030, RSMo 2001; 590.050, RSMo 2001; and 590.190, RSMo 2001, amended 2007.