The Cranston Secondary School Curriculum Guide (9-12) for Business Education is intended to serve as a resource for teachers, students, department chairman, guidance personnel, curriculum planners, and others involved in present or future curriculum planning. At least one broadly stated major objective is provided for each section, encompassing…

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…

This study investigated six clerical training programs in which women 35 and older participated in Fresno, California, to determine if the programs helped these women in making an entry or reentry into the white collar labor force. It also sought to develop a profile of women who participated in the training programs so that the results would…

The textbook is intended to be useful to inservice teachers of business subjects, to college and university teachers of methods courses in business, and to students enrolled in methods courses. After two introductory chapters dealing generally with business education, the teacher's role, the learning process, and planning for instruction, four…

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…

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…

Developed as a performance-based plan, the Business Education Learning System (BELS) proposes ways to prepare non-degree students for office occupations and to prepare degree students for teaching and administrative positions. Special features designed into the system include: (1) the Office Service Center (OSC)--an actual campus business operated…

This is the last of a series of four bulletins which provide salary guide and fringe benefit information relative to noncertified personnel in New Jersey's 604 school districts. The major portion of the document is given over to an analysis of the data contained in the three previous bulletins. This volume also provides an index to those…

Following an analysis of the task of transcribing as practiced in a health facility, this study guide was developed to teach the knowledge and skills required of a medical transcriber. The medical record department was identified as a major occupational area, and a task inventory for medical records was developed and used as a basis for a…

Developed as a result of an analysis of the task of transcribing as practiced in a health facility, this study guide was designed to teach the knowledge and skills required of a medical transcriber. The medical record department was identified as a major occupational area, and a task inventory for medical records was developed and used as a basis…

Following an analysis of the task of transcribing as practiced in a health facility, this study guide was designed to teach the knowledge and skills required of a medical transcriber. The medical record department was identified as a major occupational area, and a task inventory for medical records was developed and used as a basis for…

Disadvantaged high school males indicated on the Minnesota Vocational Interest Inventory a preference for service-oriented jobs. Disadvantaged females tended toward office work and selling. On the Jr.-Sr. HSPQ form of the IPAT, both groups showed a pattern of personality which can be described as group-dependent, restrained, relatively…

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…

One of a series of 12 in the secretarial/clerical area, this booklet for the vocational instructor contains a job description for the medical secretary, a task list under 17 areas of competency, an occupational tasks competency record (suggested as replacement for the traditional report card), a list of industry representatives and educators…

Reviews the work environments surrounding integrated office systems, and synthesizes the known effects of automated office technologies with regard to their impact on information networks, work flow/processes, and organizational structure and power. (CLB)