This index, changed in the focus of the research as well as in its format, covers business education publications and those related to business education. Priority is given to journals that are essential to research and teaching in the broad business education spectrum with emphasis on information systems (including business communications),…

This teaching guide consists of statements of goals and objectives, teachers' notes and suggested activities, and lists of suggested materials to use in teaching two consecutive secondary-level shorthand and transcription courses. Covered first are the rationale behind each course, evaluation procedures to be used in the course, course time…

THIS STATEWIDE OCCUPATIONAL STUDY WAS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH PERSONAL INTERVIEWS OF 10,096 BUSINESSES AND INDUSTRIES IN 32 TOWNS AND CITIES IN NEW MEXICO. TABULAR DATA ARE PRESENTED FOR EACH OF THESE NEW MEXICO POPULATION CENTERS WITH A SUMMARY OF PRESENT AND PROJECTED OCCUPATIONAL NEEDS IN DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION, OFFICE EDUCATION, TRADE AND…

Editorial, like clerical, proofreading cannot be left to chance; the know-how, what and why must be reviewed, recalled, reinforced, and refined daily. There are four avenues of daily activities available to the teacher to establish these skills: (1) homework reading assignment, (2) dictation-for-control material, (3) dictation for…

This manual provides curriculum materials for implementing a career exploration class in business and office occupations within a Practical Arts Education program for middle/junior high school students. Introductory materials include the program master sequence, list of business and office occupations, and an overview of the competency-based…

This Technical Committee Report prepared by industry representatives in Idaho lists the skills currently necessary for an employee in that state to obtain a job as a business systems specialist, retain a job once hired, and advance in that occupational field. (Task lists are grouped according to duty areas generally used in industry settings, and…

Letters of accommodation, brief course descriptions, and photographs of facilities compose the dedication program. (MLF)

The handbook provides teachers with a guide to a course of vocational training designed to qualify high school stenographic majors for initial employment as stenographers or potential secretaries. The subject is taught by means of practical application under supervision and is meant to serve as a culmination of secretarial training. The course…

The course outline has been developed to assist instructors to plan for and teach a 9-week course in operating the sorter and in advanced keypunch techniques, preparing the student to perform as a keypunch operator trainee or sorter operator trainee. The first week of the course provides a short review of key punching principles. In the following…

Presents figures that indicate the extent of change in women's enrollment patterns since the passage of Title II of the Education Amendments of 1976. Discusses enrollment patterns in office occupations education, health occupations education, marketing and distributive education, trade and industrial education, occupational home economics,…

Describes Lester Hill, a simulated corporation, that students utilize in education for clerical, secretarial, or distributive services. Following job interviews, students, assigned to appropriate jobs, process computer cards (simulated merchandise) through sales, warehouse, traffic, and accounting departments. Reviews roles of management, outside…

This study examines qualifications available to initial entrants to tertiary sector/clerical and commercial occupations in three CEDEFOP (European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training) member states--the United Kingdom, France, and West Germany. (The goal is to ascertain the feasibility of establishing equivalence of qualifications…

This instructional package contains both an instructor's manual and a student's manual for a course in machine dictation and transcription. The instructor's manual contains an overview with tips on teaching the course, letters for dictation, and a key to the letters. The student's manual contains an overview of the course and of the skills needed…

This annotated listing of curriculum materials for Office Occupations provides planners, administrators, vocational educators, and others with information as to available curriculum materials developed by the various States. The materials are identified with the instructional titles and codes from the classification system of the Office of…