This handbook is intended for use in teaching the concepts and applications of information processing to secondary and technical institute students preparing to be secretaries, typists, and office clerks. The guide begins with a list of the competencies to be developed, followed by lists of the terminal and enabling objectives for the two phases…

This document contains the occupational duty/task lists for eight occupations in the microcomputer series. Each occupation is divided into 5 to 11 duties. A separate page for each duty in the occupation lists the tasks in that duty along with its code number and columns to indicate whether that particular duty has been taught and to provide space…

This student worktext is designed for use by those participating in an advanced child care administration course teaching microcomputer utilization for child care administrators. Addressed in the individual units of the course are the following topics: the role of microcomputers in administration of child care programs, development of…

This syllabus describes the basic competencies needed by entry-level workers in the field of word processing. Competencies are organized according to the following skill areas: systems operation; text creation; storage, and printing; revision; formatting; text applications; word processing center procedures; word processing theory; and…

This course curriculum is intended for use in an advanced information processing course. It builds on the skills developed in the previous information processing course but goes one step further by requiring students to perform in a simulated office environment and improve their decision-making skills. This volume contains two parts of the…

This course curriculum is intended for use by community college insructors and administrators in implementing an advanced information processing course. It builds on the skills developed in the previous information processing course but goes one step further by requiring students to perform in a simulated office environment and improve their…

This course curriculum is intended for community college instructors and administrators to use in implementing a principles of information processing course. A student's course syllabus provides this information: credit hours, catalog description, prerequisites, required texts, instructional process, objectives, student evaluation, and class…

Designed to help teachers provide students with various word processing skills, this teacher's guide contains nine units of instruction. The units address various skills that are prerequisite for entry-level word processing positions, including concepts and theories of word processing, language usage, mathematics, machine transcription and…

This volume is one of three in a self-paced computer literacy course that gives allied health students a firm base of knowledge concerning computer usage in the hospital environment. It also develops skill in several applications software packages. Volume II contains materials for three one-hour courses on word processing applications, spreadsheet…

This document contains the information required to deliver a 1-semester course in microcomputing and document processing that is designed for students in grade 9. The document begins with a course rationale, brief course description, list of course objectives, and list of 14 teaching strategies and suggestions for business educators to use to…

General Electric Company (GE) of Erie, Pennsylvania, hosts onsite literacy classes in conjunction with the Northwest Tri-County Unit. The development of the inplant microcomputer literacy lab expands the offerings available to the participating adult basic education and General Educational Development program students by supplying software and…

This document consists of a curriculum guide combined with separately published "simulations" and "test bank" volumes designed to support instructors using the curriculum guide. The curriculum guide was developed to provide instructional materials to teachers of microcomputer application courses in Texas. The guide contains the…

This course guide contains 21 competency goals--keyed to competency objectives, student activities, and suggested resources--for secondary keyboarding/typewriting and advanced typewriting/word processing courses. The 21 competency goals cover the following topics: basic equipment, keyboarding techniques, touch techniques, formatting and document…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in helping students learn to update and print mailing lists using a microcomputer system. The guide is one in a series of core curriculum modules that is intended for use in combination on- and off-the-job programs to familiarize youth with the skills,…

This report is based on the premise that giving teachers computer tools will enhance instructional effectiveness, encourage teacher collaboration, and maximize staff efficiency. The purpose of the report is to heighten awareness of the importance of providing teachers computer tools to work with and to describe the critical components needed to…