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Download full textZiyane, Masotsha J.; And Others – 1975
The Swaziland Behavioural Assessment Series (SBAS) is a battery of ability tests derived from the Flanagan Aptitude Classification Tests and the Internationally Developed Tests, for use in the guidance of secondary school students towards relevant educational and vocational opportunities. The SBAS has been field tested in Swaziland. Sixteen…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Guidance
Campbell, Creola S. – 1978
An instructor's manual and student activity guide on general clerical work are provided in this set of prevocational education materials which focuses on the vocational area of office occupations. (This set of materials is one of ninety-two prevocational education sets arranged around a cluster of seven vocational offerings: agriculture, home…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Clerical Occupations, Food Service, Instructional Materials
Jones, Adaline Dorothy Seitz – 1964
The purposes of this study were to determine the occupational opportunities for which high school graduates can qualify in the field of digital computer installations, the knowledges and skills needed for employment, the training needed, the pattern of advancement, the effect of automatic coding, and significant recent developments. Sixty-nine…
Descriptors: Business Education, Career Opportunities, Clerical Occupations, Digital Computers
Schull, Amy P. – 1972
Intended for the student interested in obtaining high speed and control, the course includes drills that will enable the student to prepare more complex business forms and reports with a high degree of speed and accuracy. It is a culminating basic course for vocational competency, requiring the course Advanced Clerical Typewriting (7705.11) as a…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Business, Business Correspondence, Business Education
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1971
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. – 1957
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. – 1957
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
Peer reviewedHardy, Melissa A. – Sociology of Education, 1984
Acquiring a college degree was found to reduce the likelihood of retirement among professional, technical, and kindred workers, and acquiring a high school diploma was found to make retirement less likely for sales and possibly clerical workers. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, Educational Attainment, Educational Background, Educational Research
Peer reviewedWeiss, Janice – Teachers College Record, 1982
The history and implications of commercial education are examined and contrasted with current practices in vocational education. (FG)
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, Educational History, Educational Responsibility, Educational Trends
Gaskell, Jane – 1983
Working-class high school girls choose courses for a variety of reasons, both consciously and subconsciously, and use conventional attitudes to justify their choices to themselves and others, according to working-class girls who volunteered to be interviewed during their free periods in Vancouver (British Columbia) high schools. The girls cited…
Descriptors: Business Education, Career Choice, Clerical Occupations, Courses
Reid, Gwen; Talbert, Willisteen – 1982
Developed during a project designed to provide a continuous, competency-based line of vocational training in business and office education programs at the secondary and postsecondary levels, this package consists of an instructor's guide and learning modules for use in Shorthand I and Shorthand II. Various aspects of implementing and articulating…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Business Skills, Clerical Occupations, Competency Based Education
Nunley, Rachel L. – 1981
This manual provides guidelines for teachers of career exploration and for guidance counselors to help assist the handicapped student in making a realistic selection of jobs or occupations in the health arena. It contains descriptive information about 49 jobs and occupations in the health field. Selection has been limited to those jobs and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Guidance, Clerical Occupations
Nilsen, Sigurd R. – 1981
Data from the March 1976 Current Population Survey indicate that both metro and nonmetro areas face severe youth employment problems. Although 25% of the total United States labor force is comprised of youth aged 16-24, youth account for 50% of the total number of persons unemployed. Unemployment rates for metro and nonmetro youth are equal;…
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Employment Statistics, Enrollment
LUSKIN, SHELDON H.; AND OTHERS – 1966
ELECTRONIC SOLID STATE SWITCHING SYSTEMS, COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITES, SEMIAUTOMATIC INFORMATION SERVICES, AUTOMATIC INTERCEPTING AND DATA PROCESSING, AND DEDICATED PLANT, THE PERMANENT ASSIGNMENT OF LINES FROM A CENTRAL OFFICE TO EACH ACTUAL AND POTENTIAL SUBSCRIBER, ARE SOME OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS WHICH WILL BRING SIGNIFICANT MANPOWER…
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections
Cooper, Gloria S., Ed.; Magisos, Joel H., Ed. – 1976
Designed to meet the job-related metric measurement needs of students interested in becoming clerks, clerk-typists, and typists, this instructional package is one of three for the business and office occupations cluster, part of a set of 55 packages for metric instruction in different occupations. The package is intended for students who already…
Descriptors: Business Education, Clerical Occupations, Curriculum, Instructional Materials
