This course outline gives a historical introduction and review of data processing, and prepares students with the skills and techniques necessary to operate keypunch and verifier equipment. Course goals, specific block objectives (orientation, introduction to punched-card machines, keypunch operations, and card verifier operations), and a…

This training manual is intended as an individual study aid for Navy personnel who wish to prepare for advancement to the rate of Data Processing Technician First Class or Chief Data Processing Technician. Theoretical knowledge and operational skills are presented along with assignments designed to lead students through the manual. The manual…

Focusing on office machine and computer occupations, this document is one in a series of forty-one reprints from the Occupational Outlook Handbook providing current information and employment projections for individual occupations and industries through 1985. The specific occupations covered in this document include business machine repairers,…

A model for assessing specific competences acquired in work situations, and for relating these skills to occupationally oriented degree programs, is presented. The Work Assessment Model is designed to help a college specify the competences acquired, define the learning objectives of occupational and career programs, and translate the competences…