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)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Business Education, Competence, Competency Based Education, Consumer Education, Distributive Education, Home Economics, Integrated Curriculum, Marketing, Mathematical Applications, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Office Occupations Education, Secondary Education, State Curriculum Guides, Vocational Education
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