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Improving Students' Proofreading Skills.
Shell, Walter – Journal of Business Education, 1982
Proofreading is the precise and exacting process of examining a completed piece of work to detect all errors. Errors fall into one of five areas: (1) typing, (2) English, (3) content, (4) form, and (5) appearance. A check list of common proofreading errors is included. (JOW)
Descriptors: Business Skills, Typewriting
Teaching Word Processing in Business Courses.
Casady, Mona J. – Balance Sheet, 1980
Describes a method of incorporating word processing concepts and skills into existing business courses, focusing on form letter processing. (SK)
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Business Skills, Office Occupations Education, Teaching Methods
Help Physically Handicapped Students Achieve Business Skills.
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Simon, Judith C. – Business Education Forum, 1980
Lists suggestions for teachers to prepare them for teaching clerical skills to handicapped students. Specifically discusses teaching typewriting to students with missing fingers or arms and business skills to hearing and visually impaired students. Lists sources of additional information. (JOW)
Descriptors: Business Skills, Clerical Occupations, Hearing Impairments, Mainstreaming
The Least You Should Know about Office Machines (A Talk to Students).
Steele, Louise W. – ABCA Bulletin, 1984
Briefly describes a variety of office equipment, including copiers, ditto machines, offset printers, typewriters, typesetting equipment, computers, and dictation equipment. (AEA)
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Skills, Dictation, Higher Education
Computer Assisted Instruction in Typing.
Lambrecht, Judith J.; Pullis, Joe M. – Educational Computer, 1983
Describes and critiques four computer assisted instruction software packages designed to teach typing skills--TYPING TUTOR, MICROTYPING, TYPE-IT, and MASTER TYPE--and their prices and the microcomputers on which they can be used. A summary suggests eight improvements that could be made on some or all of the packages. (EAO)
Descriptors: Business Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Educational Technology
Deficiencies in Basic Knowledge and Skills among High School Business Education Seniors.
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Goddard, M. Lee – Ohio Business Teacher, 1982
Conducted a study to determine the level of basic skills achievement among Ohio high school business education seniors. Found that these students lacked competency in general knowledge and in computational skills, basic English skills, and typewriting skills. (GC)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Business Education, Business Skills, Computation
The Minnesota Clerical Assessment Battery: An Application of Computerized Testing to Business.
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Vale, C. David – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1990
Describes Minnesota Clerical Assessment Battery (MCAB), one of the first computerized tests for personnel selection to be made commercially available to businesses. Maintains that application of computerized testing to business is somewhat different from its application to education or counseling. Presents results of survey of potential users who…
Descriptors: Business English, Business Skills, Clerical Workers, Computer Assisted Testing
Summaries of 1977 Research Studies in Business Education.
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Himstreet, William C., Ed. – Business Education Forum, 1978
Summaries of forty-eight business education research studies completed in 1977 (all but one a doctoral or independent study) are compiled for twenty-two subject areas. Although the quantity is small, these summaries should present a normal picture of the nature and scope of research in business education in 1977. (MF)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Automation, Business Education, Business Skills