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Download full textManitoba Dept. of Education and Training, Winnipeg. – 1993
This guide is intended for use in a course to help students become familiar with computer disk operating systems and the applications of various types of computer software. The first third of the guide contains the following: a profile of the critical skills required for the Canadian work force, a flowchart of the recommended sequence of studies…
Descriptors: Business Education, Computer Software, Courseware, Data Processing
Peer reviewedSilvius, John E.; And Others – American Biology Teacher, 1994
Many teachers have found that, no matter how enjoyable ecological studies are, students tend to dislike the computation of the large amounts of data gathered. Included is a description of an experiment that utilized time-saving features as well as the instructional and motivational benefits of using a computer spreadsheet program to analyze and…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Data Processing, Ecology, Field Studies
Clark, Phillip M. – Library Administration & Management, 1989
Describes some of the available software and hardware tools that can be used to develop a decision support system implemented on microcomputers. Activities that should be supported by software are discussed, including data entry, data coding, finding and combining data, and data compatibility. Hardware considerations include speed, storage…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Data Processing, Database Design, Database Management Systems
Peer reviewedBright, George W. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1989
Illustrates how teachers or students can use spreadsheets. Shows the layouts, formulas, and data of two cases: budget manager and data manager. Seven references are listed. (YP)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Data Processing, Elementary Education
Patton, Jan – 1994
This document contains a composite of learning activities for use in a secondary-level course in business computer applications. The collection is unique in that the individual learning activities constituting it have each been tailored to one or more of the diverse learning styles possessed by individual students. The activities are grouped into…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Cognitive Style, Competence, Competency Based Education
Patton, Jan; Murray, Darlena – 1991
This document consists of a curriculum guide combined with separately published "Simulations" and "Test Bank" volumes designed to support instructors using the curriculum guide. The curriculum guide for "business computer applications I" provides office education instructors with detailed units of instruction…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Graphics
Mississippi State Dept. of Education, Jackson. Bureau of Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education. – 1988
Standardized curricula are provided for five courses for the secondary business technology programs in Mississippi: intensive business training; information processing; business computer applications; and computer programing technology (CPT) I and II. The 20 units of intensive business training include the following: keyboarding; operation of…
Descriptors: Accounting, Behavioral Objectives, Business Education, Check Lists
