Findings demonstrate the need for substantial overhaul of the content and methodology of high school recordkeeping/bookkeeping instruction. Recommendations are made accordingly. (Author)

The research study was undertaken to determine business communication teacher and business administration teacher perceptions of the present and ideal status of collegiate business communications, their concepts of an ideal business communication curriculum for preparing teachers, and their educational backgrounds. (Author/BP)

From questionnaires received from 472 graduates of the School of Business of Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville), the following characteristics were determined: Industrial and ownership classifications of their employers, geographic location, organization size, and computer utilization in their employment environment; and the occupational…

Analysis of verbal interaction between student business teachers and their students provides basis for improving instruction. (MF)

The primary purpose of this study was to determine through controlled classroom experimentation, the relative effectiveness of audio-tutorial and programmed learning as a supplement to conventional classroom instruction. (Author)

A study compiled a list of dictation competencies (competencies of dictators) and found there is substantial agreement among dictators, business educators, and word processors on the importance of dictation competencies. Where there were significant differences, business educators disagreed much more frequently with word processors than with…

Many challenges face professional organizations. This study focused on the contributions, challenges, and trends in business education professional organizations over the years. Data was gathered from formal and informal sources associated with 17 business education professional organizations. The study showed that primary challenges were…

The article presents some arguments for using behavior classification systems, defines the categories and behaviors relevant to vocational education learning situations, gives detailed instructions of coding procedures, and describes rating scales. (Author/BP)

To discover how students perceived they were being helped to learn, three teacher nonverbal behaviors (invasion, touching, and eye contact) were investigated in secondary education typewriting classes through the use of silent videotaped teacher-student enactments and several significant findings were indicated, including a noted difference in…

Application of the Kruskal-Wallis test to survey research problems is discussed as an alternative for the business education researcher in testing questionnaire response differences among three or more independent groups. Problem illustrations and a computer program are included. (MF)

This study assessed whether relationships existed between home and school environment variables and computer literacy. Two of the home environment variables investigated appeared to be related to computer literacy. Students who viewed science fiction movies frequently and students whose families had contemplated buying home computers had…

Teacher job satisfaction is affected by a number of factors which can be taken into consideration in planning undergraduate preparation, by school administrators, and to evaluate potential jobs. (MS)

Most pressing problems representing research priorities for the business education profession do not fit into such narrow functional categories as typewriting and shorthand. Rather the problems critical to survival of our discipline in the decade ahead are more of an interdisciplinary nature. (Author)

Indications point to an increasing professionalism of business teachers at all levels in the 1970's. Videotaping techniques, microteaching, newer developments in student-teaching approach (including internship) are providing opportunity for teachers to become sophisticated analysts of teaching-learning behaviors. (Author)

A study was undertaken with the view that economic education is a continuing process and that development of personal economic understanding is a crucial part of business and economic courses in 2-year colleges. It compared personal economic understanding achieved by freshmen and sophomores who completed courses entitled Introduction to Business,…