Shows the business education teacher ways to teach students transcription skills. Includes classroom organization, copy distribution (work in progress, for teacher's signature, to be filed), grading (production plan, percentage plan), interruptions (idle chatter, additional dictation, directions), filing the carbons, and businesslike atmosphere.…

Four short articles discuss the training of those who will eventually own and operate their own businesses or have an opportunity to manage a business for others. They include facts, procedures, and concepts that will aid students in becoming effective members of the business community. (JOW)

After identifying six reasons why the traditional office is inefficient, the author offers six suggestions for coping with such inefficiency, emphasizing that word processing might be the answer since it enables a firm to obtain optimum benefits from personnel and equipment through carefully orchestrated procedures and controls. (HD)

A study compared the typing speeds attained by students who learned to type on typewriters with the speeds attained by students who learned on computers in order to determine whether the medium of instruction has any effect on achievement. Data were gathered on the speeds of 585 students from west central Indiana high school business teachers. Of…

The importance of Word Processing Centers, using automatic typewriters, in the business world and the implications for the office occupations education curriculum is considered. (AG)

Reported are results of a study which compared a traditional method of teaching office practice with a simulation method using MOE Simulation materials. It was found that using simulation was more effective in developing attitudes and personality traits important to the office worker. (SC)

The positions of file clerk, receptionist, typist, office machines operator, and secretary were chosen for emphasis in the development of an elementary career education model. Topical packages and activity packages and a career laboratory were designed to promote career awareness for that age group in office education. (AG)

Presents several ideas concerning ways to make the office procedure class more relevant to student needs. (JS)

Discusses content which should be eliminated and other content which must be incorporated. (JK)

Because of technological advancement, business education must add data processing and computer concepts to traditional areas of instruction. (CH)