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Peer reviewedDye, Lee; Hosler, Mary Margaret – Business Education Forum, 1989
A study of public secondary schools, vocational technical colleges, and career centers in Indiana and Wisconsin found that shorthand enrollment is low and declining but extensively offered; Gregg is the dominant system; there are no plans to change the system; it is a one-year program; shorthand will continue to be offered; and low enrollments are…
Descriptors: Business Education, Enrollment Trends, Postsecondary Education, Secondary Education
Download full textThompson, Frank V. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The influence of industrial vocational education is having its effect upon practices and methods of commercial education. The practice of industrial education of analyzing a curriculum of subjects containing values of vocational work, related vocational, and non-vocational subjects is causing the examination of commercial education with a view to…
Descriptors: Business Education, Secondary Education, School Surveys, Industrial Education
McElhinney, Kerry R.; Pershing, James A. – 1989
The lack of economics literacy is a serious problem in the United States. Today, public school students are taught little if any economics and score very poorly on economics literacy tests, with the average test score being 40 percent. This absence of economic understanding hurts the economy in the following ways: (1) economically illiterate…
Descriptors: Basic Business Education, Citizenship Education, Consumer Education, Critical Thinking
Kauffman, Colleen E.; Gilman, David A. – 2002
The effect of enrollment in prerequisite courses on success in advanced courses was examined in a study of a sample of students who completed a business cooperative experiences program between 1994-1995 and 2001-2002. Of the 163 students in the sample, 80 completed the prerequisite courses (Technology Lab I and II) before the advanced course, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Courses, Attendance, Business Education
West, B. R. – 1980
This report describes an Indiana project to develop occupational matrices in six vocational service areas--agribusiness, business and office, health, home economics, marketing and distribution, and trades and industries. (These matrices cluster industry-verified job titles in an occupational field on the basis of task commonality.) These…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Supply Occupations
Davis, Rod; And Others – 1979
This Indiana distributive education competency-based curriculum model is designed to help teachers and local administrators plan and conduct a comprehensive marketing and distributive education program. It is divided into three levels--one level for each year of a three-year program. The competencies common to a variety of marketing and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Business Administration Education, Business Skills
