Contends that business education, including keyboarding, accounting, word processing, and business fundamentals, will have a crucial role in preparing productive citizens in the emerging service-related economy. (TE)

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…

Teachers in a block or model office program, noting that all students have not acquired basic office skills elsewhere, describe drills they use to improve entry skills advertised for daily in want ads. (Editor/HD)

Suggestions for incorporating the use of shorthand in an office simulation include having different people dictating materials, taking phone messages in shorthand, taking taped dictation as if it were oral dictation, and transcribing answering service messages, letter dictation, and minutes of organizational meetings. (AG)

Suggests methods for integrating word processing into business communication courses to help ensure that students are familiar with important concepts. The author feels this is necessary in light of the increasing number of organizations installing word processing systems. (NRJ)

An introduction to microcomputers should be included in a capstone preparation course for secretaries. Typical classroom activities that do not require the purchase of a microcomputer include introduction to secretarial careers, office equipment/supplies, displaying business data, and work simplification. (SK)

The author presents a new method of teaching typing students how to type numbers. This keyboard presentation places equal emphasis on numbers and letters. This conveys to students the idea that numbers are not a special part of the keyboard. (CT)

Discusses selection of equipment and materials and gives suggestions for teaching machine transcription in order to prepare students for today's office. (JOW)

Discusses the importance of including word processing in the business curriculum. Details the terminology and concepts involved in word processing. Describes desirable curriculum changes. (JOW)

The increased use of machine transcription in business and industry demands that business educators attract and train more highly skilled machine transcriptionists. Realistic production measurement and appropriate vocabulary should be taught to link machine transcription to word processing. (Author)

This volume of the Ohio Business Teacher contains articles on teaching business education, especially in the secondary schools, although some articles also include information on teaching business-related material to elementary school children and to adults. Eight of the articles concern classroom teaching techniques for the electronic office,…

This curriculum guide was developed to help administrators develop a competency-based postsecondary curriculum to prepare students for employment in business and office occupations. The content is in five sections. The first one introduces the concepts and techniques of competency-based education and includes some sample forms, such as student…

A project coordinated through Job Training Partnership Act programs and local educational organizations in Clermont and Warren Counties of Ohio attempted to identify persons in the clerical field who were unemployed or whose employment opportunities were limited by a lack of technological skills. A commercially developed assessment was used with…

This is the fifth of five student packets forming part of a position simulation developed for use in an office occupations laboratory at the postsecondary level. The purpose of the simulation is to give the student an opportunity to become familiar with the tasks and duties performed by a clerk-typist working for an independent insurance agency.…

This study examined the concept that extent of agreement between clerical employees and their respective supervisors on competency importance would relate to satisfactoriness and job satisfaction. Data for competency agreement, satisfactoriness, and job satisfaction were analyzed and interpreted for fifty-five clerical employees who responded to a…