This seasonal project integrates the skills of typing, photocopying, calculating, composing, alphabetizing, and human relations, which the student has acquired during the first part of the Administrative Support Occupations II course. The activity is a simulation that involves a small, specialty, mail-order business selling novelty items for…

Supporting performance objective 19 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Paying and Receiving Bankteller Catalog, this module includes both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on inspecting customer identification. (This module is the seventh in a set of eight on banktelling [CE 019 471-478].) The…

This booklet of tests is designed to accompany the booklet "Office Occupations: Competencies for Articulation"--ED 151 565. The written test questions suggest the knowledge level needed to accomplish the skills necessary to complete the competency. It is suggested that they may be used to assess the development of competencies or they…

The Fullemploy Training Scheme is an experiment designed to overcome problems encountered by disadvantaged youth in Britain's Manpower Services Commission's job training program. The aim of the scheme is to bring minority disadvantaged young people into a special office skills training course which would combine vocational training with…

Designed to prepare students to operate the types of accounting machines used in many medium-sized businesses, this instructor's guide presents a full-year high school course in machine accounting covering 120 hours of instruction. An introduction for the instructor suggests how to adapt the guide to present a 60-hour module which would be…

The course is constructed to develop speed and accuracy in taking dictation and in transcribing notes; to develop desirable personal traits and awareness of responsibility for proofreading and correcting errors before submitting typewritten transcripts for approval. Course content includes (1) typing technique, (2) typing fundamental skills, (3)…

A regular class activity in typewriting classes at Amherst, Massachusetts, regional secondary schools is making and viewing video tape recordings of the students' typing techniques over closed circuit television. Taping procedures, student reaction, and benefits of the program are described. (MF)

Discusses the opportunities, career training and skills, and earnings surrounding a job as medical office assistant. (HD)

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

The "office of the future" is creating new competency requirements and changing existing requirements for office occupations program graduates. Central to this evolution are the new uses for electronic processing equipment. These changes provide an excellent opportunity for new business education methods. (JOW)

Suggested procedures for presenting new shorthand theory principles are given along with guidelines to follow in preparing and giving vocabulary quizzes. (LRA)

Conventional secretarial courses typically use competency-based approaches. The author argues that these approaches are not appropriate for providing higher-level secretarial students with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for new employment roles. The purpose of secretarial education is discussed, as well as the need for management…

This survey was conducted by the Vocational Programs Unit of the State Department of Education and the State Steering Committee for Business and Office Education in Wyoming to facilitate the determination of business and office education state standards. The survey was mailed to 208 businesses in the state asking for responses to the degree of…

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)