This Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States (V-TECS) curriculum guide is designed to provide job relevant tasks, performance objectives, performance guides, resources, learning activities, evaluation standards, and achievement testing in word processing. It may be used with any teaching method chosen by the instructor. The guide…

This document contains the occupational duty/task lists for two occupations in the word processing series. Each occupation is divided into 9 or 10 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 unit introduces students to the basic skills, procedures, and formats used in operating most word processing equipment. Introductory materials include an overview of the three-week unit, its scope, and student behavioral objectives. Teacher materials provided are a lesson plan outline, glossary, and some masters for visual aids. Two student…

This report describes and provides materials developed by a project to set up competency-based instruction for designated competency levels in the Modern Office/Word Processing Technology Course in an area vocational school. Following an abstract and a report that details conclusions and recommendations, materials developed by the project are…

This curriculum guide provides materials for a course in word processing. An instructor's guide sets forth prerequisites, equipment, use of the modules, comments on individual modules, a 12-item bibliography, answer keys, and a brief overview of each module. Six student modules follow. They are self-contained and require little effort on the…

This student activity kit consists of a programmed, self-instructional learning guide and an accompanying instructor's manual. Provided in the student guide are materials dealing with the following topics: word processing careers, local job demands for word processing workers, the history of word processing, work production, electronic…

This guide is intended to serve as a resource for business education instructors who are teaching a course in information processing for the automated office. The following topics are covered: program goals, student learning objectives for production applications, an introduction to production applications, a curriculum outline, student learning…

This document is intended for middle school teachers delivering an introductory keyboarding course that is designed to enable students to type at a speed of 25-30 words per minute at the end of the 9-week course. The document begins with a brief discussion of the need for keyboarding skills in view of the increasing importance of computers.…

This document contains the information required to deliver a 1-semester beginning keyboarding course designed to give high school students a basic understanding of the following: parts of a computer; keyboard functions; Windows 95; keypads; techniques for proofreading and formatting various documents; basic word processing features; capitalization…

Based on a DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) analysis, this curriculum guide contains five units designed to help teachers prepare and present a course in office skills. The units cover the following material: performing communication functions; producing documents, using typewriters and computers; coordinating an office; operating office equipment,…

This program guide is intended to provide information that is useful to local school district and community college administrators, instructors, program advisory committee members, and others charged with the responsibility for offering vocational education programs. It serves to identify the major considerations in the organization, operation,…

This document, which is intended for business education teachers at the postsecondary level, contains the information required to deliver a 1-semester beginning keyboarding course. The course is designed to help students develop a keyboarding speed of 30-40 words per minute and learn to use word processing software to create, store, print, and…

This document contains the occupational duty/task lists for 11 occupations in the business and office secretarial series. Each occupation is divided into three to seven 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…

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 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…