Describes a field-tested program for making students aware of and adept in skills that have brought success to business owners in their local community. Entrepreneurship education must be regarded as a complement to existing vocational and business education programs. (JOW)

Notes that in a good production typing program that builds significant keystroking skills along with high-level production skills, quality of typing work plus the time required to complete that quality work must be adequately reflected. Essential conditions of production typing are outlined. (HD)

More students will locate employment in word-processing systems rather than in traditionally organized offices. To prepare students for successful careers in this growing field, business educators must equip students with an understanding of word-processing job structures, employment demands, and user problems. (TA)

The learning activities planned for use in a vocational typewriting class should meet at least one of the following objectives: develop the highest basic skill, provide a useable skill, recognize that knowledge learned is transferable to outside activities, emphasize both straight copy and production efficiency, and use realistic problems. (BP)

Timed writing material contained in this document are intended to provide high school, technical, and junior college students with typewriting practice for speed and accuracy on straight copy. The writings are divided into three sections: Section 1 contains 2-, 3-, and 5-minute timed writings; section 2 contains progressive sentences for building…

The most obvious curricular implication of the shorthand/word processing issue appears to be that students who aspire to secretarial careers will be transcribing from both shorthand notes and recorded diction. Skill development in both these areas should be practiced. (TA)

A teaching technique is described in which the students were paid dollars for perfectly corrected production work and charged dollars for errors in typing and proofreading. (Author/BP)

Two techniques are described in helping business education students understand the causes of change in the amount of working capital and cash flow from operations. (Author)

The article illustrates a way typing students, with the guidance of a competent teacher, can individually progress toward prescribed competencies with the typewriter. The method consists of five easy steps: plan, orient, review, guide, and evaluate. (Author)

An activity schedule slit board, used as a method for planning and assessing a student's work in transcription, is described. Appropriate exercises are assigned for such individual problem areas as grammar and sentence structure and errors in transcribing from shorthand. An example activity on the semicolon is provided. (TA)

Extra credit points are given to typing students for typing specified paragraphs without errors. (SC)