This curriculum guide for the Bilingual Microcomputer Business Skills Course reflects modern office practices and technology. This volume, third of three, contains five competency-based joint lessons, the focus of which is on mastering specific tasks needed to accomplish the job of the occupational cluster of clerical worker while also learning…

Activities and procedures by which secondary vocational education can be designed to prepare students for entrance into new technology programs or employment were developed in the Illinois Employment for Technology Education (ETE) project during the 1983-84 school year. These activities included the following: (1) formation of a high technology…

The course outlines contained in this book were developed to assist business educators with the implementation of competency-based instruction in Virginia. The outlines are for courses in accounting, business data processing, clerical accounting, and recordkeeping occupations. Each outline is composed of a course description; a listing of skill…

This competency test package, one of a series of test packages for office occupations education, contains a list of performance objectives; a pool of objective questions matched with these performance objectives; a sample, 50-point objective test; and several performance test activities. The package also includes complete directions for the…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in helping students learn how to obtain, analyze, record, and present statistical information, specifically, information related to people's failing to turn up for court appointments. The guide is one in a series of core curriculum modules that is…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in teaching students to take an inventory of the hardware, software, and other equipment and materials present in an Information Technology Center (ITeC) and store the inventory in a word processor. The guide is one in a series of core curriculum modules…

This teaching guide contains guidelines for conducting a secondary-level general business course. Intended to serve as an introduction to business and consumer fundamentals, the course provides socioeconomic background useful to students seeking vocational preparation for office and clerical occupations. The goals and objectives of the course are…

This Job Function Booklet (Doing Clerical Work) is one of the 14 components (see note) of the Career Alert Planning (CAP) program, a set of individualized materials designed to help participants find out about themselves and about the kind of work for which they are suited. In this program, participants become acquainted with occupations that are…

This curricular framework for the subject area section, Business Education for Grades 9-12, is one of eight Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools (MCPS) Programs of Studies. A foreword discusses Curriculum and Instruction, Use of the Program of Studies, Curriculum Change and Modification of the Program of Studies, State and Federal…

This project report outlines the entry-level competencies required for student success in 13 vocational programs at Pensacola Junior College: Accounting Technician; Computer Programming/Operations; Core Program--Major Appliances, Air Conditioning and Heating, Maintenance Technology, and Industrial Electricity; Cosmetology; Dental Hygiene;…

This publication is a guide to career opportunities in foreign languages and to educational programs which prepare for them. Programs at Northwest Missouri State University are listed which combine study in foreign languages with other disciplines, including: business, economics, office administration, sociology, political science, history, and…

The specific purpose of the curriculum guide is utilization in industrial arts and home economics of part of the junior high phase of the SPAN Project--An Accelerated Project for a System Program Approaching Non-Unemployment of Vocational Students, or "Start Planning Ahead Now". The document is designed to assist the teacher in providing…

The research reported in this master's thesis was undertaken to determine whether a need exists for an office occupations curriculum for male students and, if so, to propose such a curriculum. Male students at the College of Alameda, California, were surveyed for expressed interest in office occupational employment, with certain demographic data…

This booklet, which is written for adult literacy practitioners in Australia, argues that adult literacy practitioners working as trainers and assessors must become familiar with the tasks and texts used by competent workers in particular occupations and industries, and must understand how those tasks and texts fit within the broader social…

This paper reviews evidence from industry-specific and case studies that shed light on the extent to which computers and automation eliminate jobs, raise job skill requirements, and, consequently, contribute to increased wage inequality between less- and more skilled workers. This paper complements a previous review of large-scale econometric…