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Stoddard, Ted D.; Stoddard, Lucille T. – Business Education Forum, 1977
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)
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Skills, Productivity, Secondary Education
Hulbert, Jack E. – Journal of Business Education, 1977
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)
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Skills, Job Skills, Office Occupations
Reap, Margaret C. – Journal of Business Education, 1977
The steneoscript ABC shorthand system is examined as a feasible alternative to Gregg shorthand in high school training. (TA)
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Skills, Office Occupations Education, Secondary Education
Haga, Enoch – Journal of Business Education, 1977
A business communications instructor describes a method of improving business letter writing. Examples are provided. (TA)
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Business Education, Business Skills, Secondary Education
Bosire, Joseph; Etyang, Martin – Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 2003
Interviews, observations, and checklists were used to measure business skills cognition of 208 informal-sector microenterprise owners in Kenya (91 had some primary, 109 some secondary, and 4 some postsecondary education). The association between educational level and business skills cognition was significant and positive. (Contains 27 references.)…
Descriptors: Business Skills, Cognitive Ability, Competence, Foreign Countries
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Patterson, J. Wayne; And Others – Journal of Education for Business, 1988
The authors analyzed three techniques employed in technological forecasting: (1) brainstorming, (2) extrapolation, and (3) scenario writing. They argue that these techniques have value to practitioners, particularly managers, who are often affected by technological change. (CH)
Descriptors: Adults, Brainstorming, Business Skills, Long Range Planning
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Dulek, Ronald E. – Journal of Business Communication, 1993
Outlines the two basic models that colleges of business follow in their development as institutions, the vertical and the horizontal models. Considers how each of these models affects the design and practice of the teaching of business communication. Asks that faculty be constantly aware of these two models. (HB)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Education, Business Skills, Higher Education
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Poole, Vicki A.; Zahn, Donald K. – Clearing House, 1993
Studies and identifies characteristics and attitudes most desired by employers. Provides a rationale for educators to take an aggressive role in adding employability skills instruction to their school's curriculum. Includes four brief sample employability skills activities. (HB)
Descriptors: Business Skills, Employment Qualifications, Labor Market, Secondary Education
Boser, Ulrich – Teacher Magazine, 2007
This article describes The Villages High School (VHS), a charter school where students are taught with real-world skills. At Villages High, a unique creation of local development company The Villages Of Lake-Sumter Inc., the curriculum is serious business. Under its charter agreement with the Sumter County school district, the school must provide…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Health Occupations, Graphic Arts, Charter Schools
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Guerrero, Karen – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2007
In this article, the author describes how teachers, students, and other community members collaborated in the planning and preparation of World Bazaar, a project aimed to immerse elementary students into modern and ancient cultures through reading, writing, researching, using maps, and seeing videos. On the day of the World Bazaar, the courtyard…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Cultural Pluralism, Teacher Motivation, Student Motivation
Caswell, Donald – 1992
Most people dread sitting down to write, but the job becomes easier when certain writing strategies are followed. Most bad writing results from a lack of planning, not a lack of writing skills. Before determining the main point of a piece of writing, the writer should determine the purpose and audience. First, determine what needs to be achieved…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Business Education, Business Skills, Editing
Rowe, John L. – Journal of Business Education, 1975
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)
Descriptors: Business Skills, Educational Objectives, Postsecondary Education, Secondary Education
Witherow, Mary – Journal of Business Education, 1975
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Skills, Office Machines, Office Occupations Education
Edward, Ellen – Balance Sheet, 1974
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Skills, College Bound Students, Educational Needs
Morrison, James L. – Journal of Business Education, 1974
The computerized office procedures class, through the "learning-by-doing" approach, uses three instructional modules incorporating practical computer-based projects. (BP)
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education
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