It was investigated how domain-specific knowledge, fluid intelligence, vocational interest and work-related self-efficacy predicted domain-specific problem-solving performance in the field of office work. The participants included 100 German VET (vocational education and training) students nearing the end of a 3-year apprenticeship program as an…

Occupations differ in their prestige, but little research has examined how workers manage working in a low-prestige occupation. This case study with retail-clerk apprentices in Switzerland uncovers the identity strategies the apprentices employ to help them normalise the situation they find themselves in: they are learning an occupation that is…

Most learning in the workplace occurs while pursuing working rather than learning goals. The studies at hand aimed to identify task characteristics that foster learning in the workplace. Task characteristics are supposed to exert a major effect on the learning potential. However, the fact that learning is more often than not a rather unconscious…

The primary focus of this research is the impact of wages on the decision not to continue with an apprenticeship or traineeship. The approach taken is to model three wages relevant to apprentices and trainees: the wage during training; the expected wage in alternative employment; and, the expected wage on completion. The results of these models…

Designed for a 6-day training session, this manual includes a 27-item reading list of references for letterwriting (five of them government publications), detailed instruction, and nine examples of good letters. Examples and exercises are provided on how to write as you talk, good and poor opening sentences, coherence, transitions and linking…

The continuing experiments of individual teachers plus the introduction of new kinds of instructional materials and instructional equipment are likely to generate a new wave of innovations during the seventies. (Author)

Tennessee business/industry employees completed the Occupational Work Ethic Inventory (2,260 usable of 3,600). Self-rated perception of work ethic (working with others, striving for achievement, being dependable, accepting duty) differed by occupation among six groups: professional, clerical, service, agricultural, crafts, and general labor. (SK)

An assessment task in which clerical occupations students prepare a report on setting up an office aligns with Australia's competency-based curriculum and national assessments of competence. In this holistic approach, learners research and discuss the problem and draw on personal experience as well as classroom learning. (SK)

A 16-week, 600-hour Office Skills Training curriculum for limited English proficient (LEP) adults is presented. The course is divided equally between the vocational training component and the language component. It is recommended that students have an intermediate level of English language proficiency, but no experience in typing or filing is…

These instructional materials and procedures for a clerical education student project are designed as a 2-week or 25-hour rotation unit which requires two students working simultaneously in a simulated business correspondence situation. The two students "work" for two different companies and exchange letters, invoices, purchase orders, and memos.…

Presenting a range of occupations with a cross-section of task-analyzed job skills and teaching procedures, this curriculum guide is divided into ten chapters. The first chapter summarizes vocational programming for visually impaired individuals and describes how to use the curriculum. The next three chapters present information on three areas in…

Editorial, like clerical, proofreading cannot be left to chance; the know-how, what and why must be reviewed, recalled, reinforced, and refined daily. There are four avenues of daily activities available to the teacher to establish these skills: (1) homework reading assignment, (2) dictation-for-control material, (3) dictation for…

Presents the results of case studies, involving unstructured interviews with 69 women in two clerical training programs. Explores the students' perceptions of the nature of clerical work, emphasizing the importance of social constructs in determining the rewards, conditions, and power that accrue to a particular occupation. (DMM)

The major purpose of the survey was to follow up the employed hearing-impaired vocationally trained graduates (high school) in Pennsylvania from 1970-1975 to determine (1) their views toward educational and guidance programs, (2) their views regarding relatedness of jobs held to training, (3) employers' views toward the graduates, and (4) parents'…