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Download full textManpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Employment Service. – 1974
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Clerical Workers, Cutting Scores
Mississippi Research and Curriculum Unit for Vocational and Technical Education, State College. – 1972
Intensive Business Training in Mississippi is designed to prepare students for immediate employment in secretarial and clerical jobs in a business office. It includes the learning and mastering of office procedures and techniques, with emphasis on depth and practice of putting basic office skills into vocational experience and practice. The two or…
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Skills, Clerical Occupations, Clerical Workers
Porter, Lyman W.; And Others – 1973
This study investigated relationships between work unit performance, employee attitudes, and situational characteristics among 411 female clerical workers in 37 branch banks. The work units were characterized by spatial separation and performance of similar functions. Two independent dimensions of performance were empirically identified and their…
Descriptors: Banking, Clerical Workers, Employee Attitudes, Employment
Community Health Service (DHEW/PHS), Arlington, VA. Div. of Health Resources. – 1971
The manual provides major topics, objectives, activities and, procedures, references and materials, and assignments for the training program. The topics covered are hospital organization and community role, organization and management of a medical records department, international classification of diseases and operations, medical terminology,…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Clerical Workers, Guides
California State Dept. of Human Resources Development, Sacramento. – 1969
This guide for those concerned with training needs of vocational planning is designed to provide detailed occupational projections for the State of California. Manpower needs for more than 150 occupational categories were computed by making estimates by industry and occupation for 1960 and 1968 and projections for 1975. Over the 7-year period from…
Descriptors: Charts, Clerical Workers, Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1969
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Clerical Occupations, Clerical Workers
Showel, Morris – 1972
This report presents the results of research to develop an improved training program for Army typists, and the material needed to implement that program. The research was conducted at Fort Ord and Fort Knox. First, baseline learning curves were determined. Eight experimental programs then were examined, and the results of various modifications in…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Clerical Workers, Enlisted Personnel, Evaluation Methods
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1953
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Clerical Occupations, Clerical Workers
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1964
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Clerical Workers, Cutting Scores
Peer reviewedHennington, Jo Ann – Business Education Forum, 1978
Learning the touch system is fundamental to mastering the ten-key keyboard entry devices in electronic data processing systems. Daily paced drills for speed and accuracy on the ten-key keyboard are recommended and some specific pacing strategies for the teacher to use are presented. (MF)
Descriptors: Clerical Workers, Computer Science Education, Data Processing, Data Processing Occupations
Peer reviewedDaglish, Neil – History of Education: The Journal of the History of Education Society, 1998
Seeks to redress the imbalance in the clerical division of the British Board of Education. Provides a unique "bottom-up" view of the Board's structure and functions and reflects the contentious employment issues, in particular class, faced by the Civil Service as a whole during the time of the Selby-Bigge affair. (CMK)
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Boards of Education, Clerical Workers, Elementary Secondary Education
Educational Research Service, Arlington, VA. – 1985
Part 3 of the annual Educational Research Service, Inc. (ERS) National Survey of Salaries and Wages in Public Schools reports data for the 1984-85 school year on wages and salaries actually paid to support personnel in 10 selected positions, including teacher aides, building custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers, clerical staff, and library…
Descriptors: Clerical Workers, Elementary Secondary Education, Food Service, Geographic Regions
Moe, Alden J.; And Others – 1979
As part of a project that identified the specific literacy skills required in ten occupations, this report provides two levels of instructional information about secretaries. Factual data are presented in Parts I and II for use in decision making by program developers, administrators, teachers, and counselors. These sections note the specific…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills
Graesser, Cheryl C. – 1977
During April and May 1977, individual interviews of all division chairpersons and House advisors and of selected administrators and House clerks (22 total) were conducted as part of a multi-phase, multi-method study of the House Plan at Cypress College. The interviews were intended to gather suggestions for reorganizing the administrative…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Administrators
Civil Service Commission, Washington, DC. Communications and Office Skills Training Center. – 1973
The workbook has been designed to provide reference materials and practical applications for government clerical assistants. The objectives of the seminar-workshop are two-fold: (1) to provide the worker with the opportunity to refresh, update, and build his clerical abilities; and (2) to increase the worker's value as a clerical employee to his…
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Skills, Clerical Occupations, Clerical Workers
