Half of business teachers in grades 6-12 (n=283) rated 11 skills as essential prerequisites for teacher internships. Teacher educators should design preservice education programs to ensure that teacher interns acquire these competencies. (SK)

Reviews the literature on peer evaluation to identify some of the best practices. Notes that best practices include building a foundation in the classroom that supports collaborative evaluation, creating effective tools, implementing formative feedback during the collaborative experience, formulating summative feedback at the conclusion of the…

One in a series of National Business Education Yearbooks, this yearbook presents an overview of the various settings in which business education takes place and the methodology used in its teaching. The first part focuses on the following three settings: public and private schools at both the secondary and postsecondary levels;…

This monograph covers strategies, methods, and practices best suited for infusing career education into the teaching of business. Chapter 1 considers the relationship between business education and career education, including the career education movement, career development tasks, responses of business education, and goals and objectives of…

This competency-based module uses the Ocean County (New Jersey) Vocational-Technical Schools curriculum-infused model for infusing basic skills instruction into vocational education. The document consists of matrices that describe the relationship of vocational skills to basic communication, mathematics, and science skills within the entrepreneur…

Critical thinking is currently a prominent issue in education. For business educators, four issues must be considered: the meaning of critical thinking, how critical thinking can be introduced into the curriculum, how critical thinking is developed in courses, and how critical thinking can be evaluated. The literature identifies three theoretical…

A study of the cognitive style characteristics of marketing education students focused on reasoning and problem solving. Field dependence theory measured particular cognitive styles in secondary school marketing education classrooms and estimated implications for reasoning and problem-solving behavior among currently enrolled students. The study…

Publications listed in this index are limited to specific business education publications and those related to business education. Journals essential to research and teaching in the broad business education spectrum with emphasis on information systems, economic education, business teacher education, and vocational education are included in the…

At a time when our nation faces crisis for want of ethical and moral leadership in all facets of our society, the business educator must not shirk the responsibility to teach those intangible characteristics of leadership that are needed by those who prepare themselves for leadership in our society. (Author)

It is essential that the high school teacher provide instruction and experience that will enable the student to master the duties associated with the job of accounts receivable clerk. (MW)