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…

Twenty-five individualized instruction programs in business and office education are described to illustrate the variety of forms individualized instruction may take. The programs are grouped in three categories: (1) scheduled (10 programs)--a regularly scheduled class of the same students meeting together, regularly, at the same assigned time;…

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…

This project was conducted to implement a word processing unit of study within the office practice classes at Pottstown (Pennsylvania) Senior High School, using microcomputers. An additional purpose was to provide access to microcomputer accounting applications in the office practice classes. During the project, the following activities were…