It was investigated how domain-specific knowledge, fluid intelligence, vocational interest and work-related self-efficacy predicted domain-specific problem-solving performance in the field of office work. The participants included 100 German VET (vocational education and training) students nearing the end of a 3-year apprenticeship program as an…

Most learning in the workplace occurs while pursuing working rather than learning goals. The studies at hand aimed to identify task characteristics that foster learning in the workplace. Task characteristics are supposed to exert a major effect on the learning potential. However, the fact that learning is more often than not a rather unconscious…

The 2012-2013 school year represents a pivotal juncture for DC Public Schools. Last spring, Mayor Gray and Chancellor Kaya Henderson introduced "A Capital Commitment," their ambitious plan to dramatically accelerate student achievement in the district over the next five years by providing all of their students with a safe, academically…

An employer survey was conducted by California's Crafton Hills College (CHC) to determine the skills, aptitudes, or personal qualities potential employers most wanted to see in applicants for clerical/secretarial positions. Questionnaires were distributed and personal interviews conducted with 50 supervisors, selected to represent typical…

This competency-based shorthand I curriculum is organized into 19 learning units composed of 1 or 2 competencies. For each learning objective, a student competency sheet is provided with the following information: unit number and title, competency statement, performance objective, list of learning activities, and criterion evaluation. Where…

Intensive Business Training in Mississippi is designed to prepare students for immediate employment in secretarial and clerical jobs in a business office. It includes the learning and mastering of office procedures and techniques, with emphasis on depth and practice of putting basic office skills into vocational experience and practice. The two or…

Suggested units of study to guide the choice of curriculum in office occupations education are communication skills, filing, mail, reprographics, payroll, and banking. (SK)

This guide contains course outlines designed to assist teachers with the identification of research-based competencies for courses in business and office education. Outlines are provided for seven courses: typewriting, clerk typist one, clerk typist two, stenography one, stenography two, beginning shorthand, and advanced shorthand. Following a…

A workbook, designed to introduce students to office occupations, this manual provides general information about office-clerical positions and outlines the education and training necessary to enter the field. Part One, "What Are Office Occupations?" contains chapters on the careers of typist, file clerk, payroll clerk, stock clerk, office machine…

The article describes the Chippewa Office Services as a means for a student to achieve office experience while on a full academic schedule. (AG)

Although the use of electronic computers, and bookkeeping and calculation machines is expected to result in reduction in substantial numbers of office workers employed in routine jobs, occupational projections for 1975 indicate that clerical worker employment will rise at a significantly faster rate than total employment. (BC)

This teacher's guide provides instructional materials for students enrolled in office duplication practices (ODP) programs. It includes nine instructional units, eight of which center around occupations covering a variety of skills development. The ninth unit focuses on job success. Each unit of instruction consists of 10 basic components: overall…

Implicit in the human capital approach of 20th-century educational rhetoric in Australia was the belief that schools imparted vocationally useful cognitive skills beyond basic literacy and numeracy. These skills were believed to be transferable to the workplace and to increase the productivity of the individual to the benefit of society. For…

A survey of 429 secretarial/clerical trainers received 191 responses emphasizing that postsecondary office systems curricula should focus on communication and human relations skills, technology-related applications, telephone techniques, transcription, and keyboarding accuracy. (SK)