Among 220 business students who had taken online tests, freshmen's perceptions of online testing were significantly higher and sophomores' were considerably lower. Overall, attitudes were positive and there were no differences based on gender, age, or grade point average. (Contains 22 references.) (SK)

Students in business education and English education methods (n=25), randomly assigned to 9 mixed teams, developed an integrated high school curriculum unit. Survey results showed that 92% would teach the unit and appreciated its interdisciplinary potential. The one team that would not use it had experience group conflict issues. (SK)

This study addressed the factors that explain the integration of technology into the teaching-learning process in Louisiana's secondary business education programs. Four variables explain some of the variance in teachers' integration of technology in instruction. These variables are perceived teaching effectiveness, perceived barriers to…

Diagrams the levels of specialization in electronic data processing and provides a job description for the first level, computer production operations job cluster. Data collected from computer operations managers, incumbent operators, and interviews and observations were analyzed for the job skills and educational and employment qualifications…

Reports a classroom experiment by future teachers at the University of Iowa to compare a traditional teacher-managed method of instruction to a student-managed method. Subject matter was a data processing unit of a secondary school bookkeeping course. No significant differences in student achievement scores were found. (MF)

Community college business teachers' opinions as to their inservice development needs should be considered in professional development programs, according to this summary of the author's doctoral study. Five specific recommendations are made based upon the twenty-four listed study findings and conclusions. (MF)

Designed to measure and compare the satisfaction and satisfactoriness of office employees eighteen months after graduation from APEX model office (a simulated training program), cooperative office education, and office procedures courses, this study also sought to determine any differences among the three programs on a number of job and…

Office systems consultants, office administration faculty, and other collegiate business faculty (management, marketing, accounting, and finance) were asked to rate the importance of 42 concepts needed by managerial personnel in automated offices. Also, business faculty were asked to indicate which concepts were currently being taught in courses…

The research of Hebert, with regard to the competencies that teachers of beginning typewriting should have, is translated into a format thought to be useful to the teacher educator. A list of performance goals and objectives that might be used in typewriting methods program is included. (Author/HD)

The fifteen critical steps involved in writing instructional programs are described, along with an example. (MS)

A comparison of student and supervisor ratings of high school business education teachers revealed that both types of evaluation are needed to present a complete analysis of teaching performance. (MF)

A study analyzing the effects of communication-discrimination training (utilizing a prepared program of encounter tapes) with conventional training in communication indicated that business education students who participated in the encounter tapes program exhibited significantly better discrimination skills than the students in the conventional…

This article examines how one business school measures performance, based on a "value-added" model. Addresses the need to know the results of the teaching-learning process, other than through course grades; to develop a system for determining to what extent students are actually benefitting from their training experiences; and to provide critical…