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Peer reviewedSchmidt, B. June – Journal of Vocational Education Research, 1982
This study examined the extent to which high school office occupations students developed job-related reading skills, particularly proofreading, verifying, and comprehending detail. The study revealed definite weaknesses in development of these skills required for effective job performance. (SK)
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, High Schools, Job Skills, Office Occupations Education
Peer reviewedPotter, Lee Ann – Social Education, 2004
Biographers have called Walt Whitman "America's most influential and innovative poet" and some have even called him "the greatest of all American poets." But in the winter of 1862-63, even as he was gaining a reputation as a talented poet, Whitman was forty-three years old, volunteering as a nurse in Union hospitals, and…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Office Occupations, Poets, Job Applicants
Peer reviewedEwell, Paul L. – Inquiry, 2001
Looks at the failure rate of students in Accounting 211 in the Virginia Community College System. States that rote teaching styles that do not incorporate interdisciplinary and other diverse methods, do not take into account developing learning skills, and do not encourage active learning are doomed to fail. Makes recommendations for new…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Accounting, Classroom Environment
