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Download full textRoberts, David C. – 1993
The purpose of this investigation was to examine historical changes in aptitude scores. Recent literature suggesting a decline in the quality of the U.S. workforce is reviewed, and an expectation that score distributions on aptitude tests have shifted in a negative direction is presented. Archival analyses of normative data for the Short…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Case Studies, Clerical Occupations, Educational Change
Peer reviewedWeiss, Janice – Teachers College Record, 1982
The history and implications of commercial education are examined and contrasted with current practices in vocational education. (FG)
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, Educational History, Educational Responsibility, Educational Trends
Thompson, Frank V. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The influence of industrial vocational education is having its effect upon practices and methods of commercial education. The practice of industrial education of analyzing a curriculum of subjects containing values of vocational work, related vocational, and non-vocational subjects is causing the examination of commercial education with a view to…
Descriptors: Business Education, Secondary Education, School Surveys, Industrial Education
Bonner, H. R. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
This report presents the statistics of 902 private, commercial and business schools reporting in 1920. Only 12 more schools reported in 1920 than in 1918. In addition to these, there were 380 other schools of this character which did not submit a report. Of the 902 schools reporting, 841 were nondenominational commercial schools and 61 were…
Descriptors: Salesmanship, Average Daily Attendance, Parochial Schools, Educational Environment
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
Sixteen years have elapsed since a committee of the business education department of the National Education Association submitted a report on the commercial curriculum with somewhat detailed treatment of the various subjects of study. Four years ago another committee of the same department made a less complete report. Subsequent changes in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Secondary Education, Educational Change
Malott, J. O. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1931
This chapter of the "Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1928-1930" focuses on the following topic areas as they relate to commercial education: (1) Introduction; (2) Trends revealed by enrollment statistics; (3) Research basis for objectives; (4) Commercial occupation surveys; (5) Office equipment surveys; (6) Job analyses; (7)…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Trends, Business Education, Business Administration Education
Herlihy, Lester B. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1934
This bulletin is the eighth compilation of statistics on private commercial and business schools made by the Office of Education since 1900. The seventh, or preceding report, on this field of education was published for the year 1929. The effect of the economic situation on private commercial and business schools has been to reduce their…
Descriptors: Educational History, National Surveys, School Statistics, Questionnaires
