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ERIC Number: ED267252
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985
Pages: 70
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Mathematics Competencies in Vocational Education. Business and Office Education, Consumer and Homemaking Education, Marketing and Distributive Education.
Rosenfeld, Vila M.; Holsey, Lilla G.
A project was conducted in North Carolina to identify mathematics competencies in three selected vocational programs: consumer and homemaking education, business and office education, and marketing and distributive education; to develop subcompetencies to reflect the mathematics skills implied in the identified competencies; to validate the subcompetencies; and to develop training and dissemination activities related to the competencies. An advisory committee was formed and chose 12 teachers (6 mathematics teachers and 2 each from the 3 vocational areas) to participate in the project. The 12 teachers met with a leader for two day-long sessions at East Carolina University to identify vocational competencies that require mathematics skills, to develop subcompetencies, and to develop a matrix of mathematics competencies identified in the vocational competencies. The materials were subsequently validated by a sample of 444 students, parents, teachers, and business persons, who agreed strongly that the revised programs included a great deal of mathematics content. Besides a description of the project, this paper includes (1) a list of vocational competencies that have been identified as having mathematics skills associated with specific tasks/outcomes performed in each of the vocational courses, (2) subcompetencies for each competency statement identified as having implied mathematics content, (3) a matrix that illustrates the required mathematics skills for each of the selected vocational courses, and (4) an annotated bibliography of selected references and curriculum materials. (KC)
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Vocational Education.
Authoring Institution: East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC. School of Home Economics.
Identifiers - Location: North Carolina
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A