This article suggests guidelines to properly prepare effective, efficient secretarial employees. (Editor)

Suggested units of study to guide the choice of curriculum in office occupations education are communication skills, filing, mail, reprographics, payroll, and banking. (SK)

Using office simulation in a practice/procedures class better prepares students to deal with actual working situations. To facilitate the office simulation, one must consider available equipment, provide interesting programs, be aware of student needs, provide realistic evaluation, and be an enthusiastic and flexible teacher. (JOW)

Discusses an approach to teaching typewriting that may result in higher student achievement by having students spell out loud newly presented keys during keyboard instruction. (JOW)

The National Micrographics Association has prepared a general "micrographics in office administration" course syllabus. It can be used as a guideline in determining learning objectives, course content and course resource material. (Author/JOW)

The present and future office worker will always be confronted by the awesome task of keyboarding numbers. The introduction of the metric system and the use of the uni- and duodigit approach to keyboarding digits into number, which is described, may be combined to help make this an easier task. (CT)

When business teachers (67 of 125) and office professionals (60 of 125) completed the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, the majority fell into 4 of the 16 types. No significant differences were found in the extraversion-introversion and thinking-feeling scales. Business teachers were stronger on the sensing and judging scales, office professionals on…

Provides a list of appropriate resources for an office information systems program of study. Includes professional and trade journals and resources such as videos, working papers, position papers, and information on certification options. (JOW)