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Rider, Michael E. – Balance Sheet, 1983
The use of job and/or flow-of-work word processing simulations duplicates the typical dynamic business setting that business education students are preparing to enter. (SK)
Descriptors: Business Education, Office Practice, Secondary Education, Simulation
Speck, Bruce – ABCA Bulletin, 1983
Describes a course designed to teach written business communications in a simulated business environment. Summarizes student response to the course. (AEA)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Course Descriptions, Office Practice, Questionnaires

Rains, Sherry – Business Education Forum, 1980
The office simulation course can be a very effective teaching method in the small school where schedules, staffing, financing, and community resources do not allow cooperative business education courses. Suggestions are provided for such exercises as an annual report, inventories, proofreading, and customer input data. (CT)
Descriptors: Office Occupations Education, Office Practice, Secondary Education, Simulated Environment
Burmester, Allan – 1984
A project was conducted to revise an existing office occupations curriculum to incorporate the use of telecommunications into simulated office practice and to train teachers in the use of equipment required to implement the updated curriculum. During the first phase of the project, teachers from two high schools in the school district designed the…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Computer Oriented Programs, Curriculum Development, High Schools
Smith, Phyllis W. – 1975
The document is a student manual and teacher's manual for a simulated office practice class designed to give students training in a business office on school premises. In the simulation, students perform as office personnel and as customers and creditors. The first part of the guide, directed to students, contains: general information on the…
Descriptors: Business Education, Course Content, Curriculum Guides, Instructional Materials
Kazee, Naomi W.; Waggoner, Roberta – 1979
This final report of a project to develop an Interchange Model Office Program providing training and work laboratory experiences also contains two products of the project--an employee's handbook and a manager's guide. The narrative describes the program involving two separate classes, each representing a business that conducts transactions with…
Descriptors: Business Skills, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Interaction
Wells, Quentin T. – 1982
Unlike ordinary computer simulations that imitate the conditions of a real-life situation and allow several variables to be input, job simulations program a microcomputer to simulate the functions of one or more pieces of business or office equipment and to provide hands-on, interactive instruction to students on how to use that equipment. Good…
Descriptors: Business Education, Career Exploration, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs