Business education teachers have the background and knowledge to teach keyboarding basics to elementary school students, who need these skills for using microcomputers. (SK)

Outlines an introductory computer literacy course that focuses on the business data processing cluster. The course provides a general understanding of data processing history, applications, equipment, systems, people, and procedures. (SK)

Discusses basic information services and resources available to business educators. Describes library resources, encyclopedias and other reference works, ongoing published indexes, and automated databases. (GC)

Milwaukee (Wisconsin) has two schools that offer courses in word processing as a part of their business education curriculum. The author describes how the two programs were established. (MLF)

With the growing number of employment opportunities available in the medical field, business educators need to reevaluate existing medical secretary programs. Areas that need special attention are medical terminology (anatomy, laboratory language, etc.), report formats, and the importance of confidentiality of patient information. (CT)

Describes two teaching methods that use (1) oral reports to end student term paper plagiarism and (2) newspapers in business communication classes. (FL)

This instructional unit is intended to assist teachers in helping students learn to use electronic spreadsheets. The 11 learning activities included, all of which are designed for use in conjunction with Multiplan Spreadsheet Software, are arranged in order of increasing difficulty. An effort has been made to include problems applicable to each of…

The principal focus of this study is an investigation of whether students' grade point average (GPA) is a viable criterion for forming student work groups in the undergraduate Legal Environment of Business course. More specifically, the research focuses on the impact of: (1) GPA-homogeneous (HO) and GPA-heterogeneous (HE) groups upon student…

This issue of Keying In, the newsletter of the National Business Education Association, focuses upon teaching young adults how to develop both investment strategies and an understanding of the stock market. The first article, "Sound Investing Know-How: A Must for Today's Young Adults," describes how young adults can plan for their own…

Uses the Nominal Group Technique to determine Illinois business education teachers' responses to perceived challenges. Finds geographic differences in challenges faced by business educators and suggests strategies, including preservice and inservice teacher education, for coping with constantly changing issues and needs. Participants identified…

Suggested instructional strategies for increasing secretarial students classroom involvement. (HD)

Discusses a simple way to help accounting students understand the system-subsystem concept by adapting accounting simulations into subsystems (departments) which make up one system--the company. (TA)