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Jones, Arvella – Balance Sheet, 1977
A good shorthand teacher uses the laboratory both as a device for improving instruction and for personal growth and enrichment. Teachers who advantageously use the lab have the satisfaction of knowing that they are using all the tools at their command, making them better teachers and better professional individuals. Ways that the shorthand lab can…
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Skills, Laboratory Techniques, Secondary Education

Robertson, Leonard – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 1975
The findings evolved from questionnaires received from 204 firms pertaining to needed skills in spelling, typewriting, automatic typewriting, calculating machines, transcription machines, shorthand, and work processing, as well as to attributes of job attendance, cooperation, courtesy, telephone personality and appearance. (Author)
Descriptors: Business Skills, Comparative Analysis, Employer Attitudes, Employment Qualifications
Dostal, June – Balance Sheet, 1973
Games can be used to stimulate interest and to make learning shorthand fun. Suggested games include these: geographic shorthand rummy, shorthand concentration, shorthand baseball geography, shorthand geography spelldown, shorthand password, and shorthand hangman's bluff. (SC)
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Skills, Class Activities, Educational Games
Peterson, John C.; Wedell, Allen J. – Journal of Business Education, 1972
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Business Education, Business Skills
Houser, Kathryn I. – Balance Sheet, 1977
Describes a research study to determine how teachers actually deal with the whole problem of getting students to proofread their typing and shorthand exercises and projects. (HD)
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Skills, Educational Research, Error Patterns

West, Leonard J. – Business Education Forum, 1975
The article considers: (1) three fundamental principles for measurement, (2) facts about typewriting and stenographic skills that bear on their measurement, (3) recommendations for testing in accord with those facts and with basic measurement principles, and (4) the establishment of standards and modes of scoring and grading. (Author)
Descriptors: Business Skills, Educational Research, Evaluation Criteria, Instrumentation
Harrison, Pam – 1977
Supporting performance objective 73 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on taking and transcribing shorthand dictation are included in this packet. (The packet is the second in a set of four on performing stenographic activities--CE 016…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Business Education, Business Skills, Competency Based Education
Harrison, Pam – 1977
Supporting performance objective 72 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on taking and preparing minutes of meetings are included in this packet. (The packet is the third in a set of four on performing stenographic activities--CE 016…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Business Education, Business Skills, Competency Based Education
Dominick, Judy – 1972
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)…
Descriptors: Business Skills, Course Content, Curriculum Guides, Office Occupations Education

McLean, Gary N. – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 1978
Relationships between straight-copy typing and shorthand transcription and between production typing and shorthand transcription were studied using data gathered from seventy-three shorthand students. Results of the correlation analyses showed few significant relationships, indicating that transcription skills are unique. (MF)
Descriptors: Business Skills, Correlation, High Schools, Individual Characteristics

Dolecheck, Carolyn Crawford – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 1973
Rapid installation of word processing systems by organizations challenges educators to produce secretarial and managerial personnel with new skills and knowledge, aware of new career paths (administrative secretary, correspondence secretary); with or without automatic equipment, these can best be learned in established courses where basic skills…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Business Education Teachers, Business Skills, Career Opportunities
Shell, Walter – Journal of Business Education, 1980
Suggested procedures for presenting new shorthand theory principles are given along with guidelines to follow in preparing and giving vocabulary quizzes. (LRA)
Descriptors: Business Skills, Chalkboards, Classroom Techniques, Clerical Occupations
Stewart, William D. – Journal of Business Education, 1977
Describes a reading approach to shorthand homework in which students are graded on their in-class reading of the homework instead of being required to write the homework. Guidelines are provided for second semester shorthand students (proposed grading scale and reading rates). Advantages and results of using this method are discussed. (TA)
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Skills, Grading, Homework
Lambrecht, Judith J. – 1978
Pretests and dictation achievement tests were administered to 1,317 first-year shorthand students and 120 second-year students learning Century 21, Forkner, or Gregg shorthand in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area high schools. Forkner shorthand students achieved a higher accuracy and transcription rate during the first year of instruction. Thus, it is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Business Education, Business Skills, Curriculum Evaluation
Reiff, Rosanne – Journal of Business Education, 1975
The article investigates some false premises due to the lack of adequate knowledge about the true meaning of word processing in today's context by the business educator. (Author)
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Education Teachers, Business Skills, Educational Needs