Describes a logical sequence of courses to provide skills in areas critical to the entrepreneurship process. Offers five basic steps in designing assessment strategies. (JOW)

Ten temporary and ten permanent employment agencies in Cleveland, Ohio were surveyed to determine the standards required for entry level typists and the kind of employment tests currently being given, in order for business teachers to better prepare their students. (LH)

Reviews the second generation components of the Interstate Distributive Education Curriculum Consortium (IDECC) competency-based instructional system. It will provide classroom teachers opportunities to fully individualize their programs at minimal expense and with very little additional planning time. (CT)

Reviews methods and materials for producing marketing and distributive education graduates who are employable. Discusses performance-based competencies and mastery learning. (JOW)

The importance of active student involvement is stressed in this discussion of a competency-based approach to career exploration. Five steps used in developing a one-semester, eighth-grade business exploration course are presented and described. Methods of teaching such a unit and advantages to this approach are discussed. (CT)

It is essential that the high school teacher provide instruction and experience that will enable the student to master the duties associated with the job of accounts receivable clerk. (MW)

An outline of a proposed instructional system to help the accounting instructor meet the needs of a complex business society. (HD)

If distributive educators are concerned with providing the best training available, cooperative vocational education must not be viewed as an add-on to the distributive education program. The cooperative program can provide the opportunity students need to hone the skills, knowledge, and attitudes initially developed within the local distributive…

A Vocational Certificate of Completion is given by the Ohio State Department of Education to each vocational student to verify that the student has satisfactorily completed a vocational program. The author describes a plan in the senior stenography program at her high school to match the certificate's employment skill levels with competency-based…

Competency-based materials can help in mainstreaming disadvantaged students, who especially need encouragement and motivation. The author gives illustrations of several different ways of using such materials with disadvantaged students in distributive education. (MF)