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Ellis Associates, Inc., College Park, MD. – 1978
This set of seven instructional units on the metric system application in business and office occupations is one of three metric education modules designed for use with bilingual (Spanish and English) students in postsecondary and adult vocational programs. (Both the Spanish and English versions of this set are provided in the document.) Each unit…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Bilingual Education, Bookkeeping, Business Education
Woodard, Sandra R. – 1978
This in-basket-simulation learning module on the activities of an auditing clerk typist for secondary and postsecondary teachers and students, the ninth in a series of eleven task and in-basket simulations, was designed to provide individualized instruction in office occupations courses, such as introductory business and typewriting. (Each module…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Independent Study, Learning Activities
State Univ. of New York, Ithaca. Cornell Inst. for Research and Development in Occupational Education. – 1975
The resource guide of instructional materials is one of two guides developed by 84 occupational education teachers in the State of New York, each experienced with the designated high school population. The assessment instrument developed to evaluate the occupational education materials is included. The occupational education materials are grouped…
Descriptors: Auto Mechanics, Building Trades, Business Education, Child Care Occupations
Download full textEngelhardt, David F. – 1972
An occupational education and career education program was planned for the new Milford, Mass. high school in which "occupational education" was defined as stressing training and guidance for occupations requiring no more training than up through the fourteenth year. The program provides for the half-day student and for the 5- or 10-period per week…
Descriptors: Business Education, Career Education, Distributive Education, Educational Programs
Huffman, Harry; And Others – 1971
BOOST, Business and Office Occupations Student Training, is a research and development project devoted to the improvement of programs in office occupations for disadvantaged students. The project was designed to discover the perceptions of disadvantaged students concerning office work and to develop a program for modifying those perceptions that…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Business Education, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth
COOK, FRED S. – 1966
A REPORT SUMMARIZES THE RESULTS OF A SERIES OF OFFICE OCCUPATIONS TEACHER EDUCATION CLINICS IN WHICH SUGGESTED GUIDELINES WERE DEVELOPED FOR THE PREPARATION OF OFFICE OCCUPATIONS TEACHERS. A SERIES OF CLINICS GAVE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR LEADERS IN THE FIELDS OF OFFICE OCCUPATIONS EDUCATION AND BUSINESS EDUCATION TO ESTABLISH MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR…
Descriptors: Business Education, Clinics, Curriculum Guides, Distributive Education
US Department of Education, 2005
This is the fourth annual report to Congress by the US Department of Education. Among the highlights of this report are: (1) More students were reported by states as having enrolled in vocational and technical education courses in Program Year (PY) 2002-2003 than in the past three years; (2) There remain concerns about the quality and reliability…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Office Occupations, Statewide Planning, Accountability
PDF pending restorationAlvarez, Irma J. – 1994
The Office Information Systems-International Program at Southwestern College, in California, was designed to provide Hispanic students with training for entry-level office employment. In 1993, a project was undertaken to develop and pilot intervention strategies to assist limited-English proficient students in the program's intensive general…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Clerical Workers, Community Colleges
Marrs, Glenna – 1991
In an effort to provide consistency in office practice/procedures course titles and content, a study was conducted in Wyoming that found that at least 40 Wyoming high schools (55 percent) offer office practice, office procedures, or a similar class. Wyoming junior/community colleges provided information showing that four junior/community colleges…
Descriptors: Business Skills, Community Colleges, Competence, Competency Based Education
Prickett, Charlotte – 1985
This curriculum guide describes the accounting curriculum in the following three areas: accounting clerk, bookkeeper, and nondegreed accountant. The competencies and tasks complement the Arizona validated listing in these areas. The guide lists 24 competencies for nondegreed accountants, 10 competencies for accounting clerks, and 11 competencies…
Descriptors: Accountants, Accounting, Articulation (Education), Behavioral Objectives
Martin, Joan – 1986
This coloring book is intended to provide children in child care programs with activities that reinforce the many options for vocational careers that are available to all persons regardless of sex, race, or disability. The book contains pictures of persons of both sexes and various races as well as individuals with disabilities. Each picture deals…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Allied Health Occupations, Career Awareness, Disabilities
Wyoming State Dept. of Education, Cheyenne. – 1984
This three-part package was prepared to assist business education teachers in Wyoming to improve their programs to meet the entry-level requirements of the state's employers. Three documents are included in this package: the Standards of Excellence handbook, the 1984 Report of Basic Entry-Level Competencies Needed for Employment, and a…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Business Education
Valli, Linda R. – 1984
Research was conducted using an ethnographic method within a cultural reproduction framework to examine what it means to young women to be office education students in a comprehensive urban high school, and how those meanings are reproduced. The analysis is based on a year-long field study of a cooperative office education program in a midwestern…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Clerical Occupations, Cooperative Education
Rosenfeld, Vila M.; Holsey, Lilla G. – 1985
A project was conducted in North Carolina to identify mathematics competencies in three selected vocational programs: consumer and homemaking education, business and office education, and marketing and distributive education; to develop subcompetencies to reflect the mathematics skills implied in the identified competencies; to validate the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Business Education, Competence, Competency Based Education
D'Amico, Joseph J.; Adelman, Sheryl P. – 1986
Recent studies showing the need for improvements in the educational system in the United States have resulted in strengthening of academic requirements, upgrading of standards for promotion, and increased course loads in high schools throughout the country. Pennsylvania is no exception to this trend; the passage of Chapter 5 legislation, which…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Cooperative Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
