The document is a student manual and teacher's manual for a simulated office practice class designed to give students training in a business office on school premises. In the simulation, students perform as office personnel and as customers and creditors. The first part of the guide, directed to students, contains: general information on the…

Presentation of microcomputer information and hands-on activities help students develop employable microcomputer skills and enhance the office procedures class. (JOW)

Describes a model secondary business education program that simulates an actual office. The program is for senior-level students and provides a transition for students from school to the workplace. (CH)

Describes a procedure in which students maintain daily records of the number of minutes available for typing per class and the number of usable lines of copy typed in that time. The method allows students to evaluate their own production work realistically. (SK)

The office simulation course can be a very effective teaching method in the small school where schedules, staffing, financing, and community resources do not allow cooperative business education courses. Suggestions are provided for such exercises as an annual report, inventories, proofreading, and customer input data. (CT)

This report is one of seven that identify major new and emerging technological advances expected to influence major vocational education program areas and to describe the programmatic implications in terms of skill-knowledge requirements, occupations most directly affected, and the anticipated diffusion rate. Chapter 1 considers technology as…

Discusses an effective simulated program that can be integrated into almost any business and office education class. Presents four goals to be achieved: (1) understanding computer operation, (2) introduction of computer languages, (3) input data, (4) retrieving data. (JOW)

Describes how an area vocational center planned and implemented a self-paced, word-processing operations program within the existing business education program. (LRA)

Presented is volume 54 of the official magazine of the Michigan Business Education Association (MBEA), consisting of 5 issues. Among the contents of issue number 1 is a message from the association president; articles on placing business education in the mainstream of Michigan education, the changing roles and responsibilities of secretaries, and…

The author describes a special telephone training program at Arcadia High School, Phoenix, Arizona, to give office education students instruction in proper telephone techniques. The self-paced units include voice evaluation, telephone usage, telephone directory usage, telephone spelling, and recording telephone messages. (MF)

Letters of accommodation, brief course descriptions, and photographs of facilities compose the dedication program. (MLF)

Describes the development of an office simulation program at a California high school. The program also permits career exploration at business offices in the town in the student's area of interest. The article also discusses a followup study of program graduates, who were overwhelmingly supportive of the program. (CT)

Describes Lester Hill, a simulated corporation, that students utilize in education for clerical, secretarial, or distributive services. Following job interviews, students, assigned to appropriate jobs, process computer cards (simulated merchandise) through sales, warehouse, traffic, and accounting departments. Reviews roles of management, outside…

A report and related materials are provided from an activity to set up an operating information processing center that would do the work initiated by personnel in the district and to incorporate the center into the Modern Office/Word Processing Technology course. The report details objectives, population and sample, and conclusions and…

This project was designed to answer the following questions: Is it possible for secondary school office education students to develop an entry level shorthand skill of 90 words per minute with one year of instruction? Is the current dominant system the most effective to use to obtain entry level skill in one year? Is there one system more…