The Lester Hill Corporation is the name of an office simulation enterprise for the distribution of hotel and motel equipment. The article contains a sampling of comments from teachers and students (the "branch offices") regarding the simulation's effectiveness. (AG)

One way to bring the accounting office into the classroom is to conduct the class as a "company." Such a class is aimed at developing students' technical and managerial skills, as well as their career awareness and career goals. Performance goals, a course description, and overall objectives of the course are given and might serve as a model.…

Some of the issues that affect the validity and reliability of research studies are discussed to aid readers in interpreting and evaluating research studies in shorthand. (MP)

Individually prescribed instruction (IPI) tapes were used for review, remedial instruction, and individual drill in a shorthand lab. (JS)

Described in this article are curriculum patterns for secretarial practice, clerical practice, business practice, intensified clerical practice, and on-the-job training. (JS)

The scope of modern business courses seems to view as proper and modern the following objective: to provide students with the economic understandings necessary for them to effectively function as consumers, workers, and citizens in our mixed economy. The business course educates students about their economic rights, responsibilities, and roles.…

The individualized typing program at Midlands Technical Education Center, Columbia, South Carolina necessitated an open laboratory design with different course procedures and materials. (EA)

The Business and Office Education Division of the Cleveland Public Schools has developed an on-going program to periodically survey the kinds of office equipment used in Cleveland business establishments. The article describes the survey program and offers suggestions for implementing such a program in other school systems. (Author)

Activities and materials from a number of sources that business education teachers might use to give students a broad conceptualization of career education are presented by the author. (MF)

Methods and advantages of audio and audiovisual typewriting instruction, as used by the Shawnee Mission (Kansas) School District, are discussed. (SH)

Discusses a systems approach to accounting instruction and examines it from the viewpoint of four components: people (titles and responsibilities, importance of interaction), forms (nonpaper records such as microfiche, floppy disks, hard disks), procedures (for example, electronic funds transfer), and technology (for example, electronic…

The author describes a methodology which will help an accounting teacher individualize an introductory course; instruction sheets provide a lesson-plan format for the beginning teacher. Students proceed at their own rates, developing traits of independence while being actively involved in learning. (A sample job instruction sheet is included.) (AJ)