Focuses on how business educators can train students realistically for the future, combining change, content, and challenge with traditional basic skills to provide office occupations students with the skills needed to find jobs in today's technological office. (JOW)

Presents teaching techniques and a model to build compositional skills at the typewriter. (HD)

Suggested ways of introducing "realism" into the classroom by exposing students to the problems, jargon, and forms used by a variety of businesses using the "in-basket" on simulated projects. (HD)

Research indicates that people tend to use only five percent of the capabilities available in word processing software. The major objective of this study was to determine to what extent word processing was used by businesses, what competencies were required by those businesses, and how those competencies were being learned in Mid-South states. A…

Five principles of learning and their application to typewriting are considered; before they can be utilized, however, one must be sure students want to learn. To accomplish this task, seven principles of motivation are offered for incorporation into the typing course. Both sets must be considered together for optimum learning. (Author/AJ)

Shorthand mastery demands partnership between student and teacher which is undermined by student anxiety. Factors which contribute to student anxiety can be identified and eliminated or ameliorated in various ways by the teacher. (SA)

Exponential technological change must be accepted and managed as the means to achieve goals of good ethics and an even more satisfying standard of living for all. This will become a reality only to the extent that, as a service function in the organization, clerical procedures become a facilitating catalyst. (Author/SC)

Vocational guidance and counseling services available for students in Tennessee public high schools offering office occupations education in 1970-71 need strengthening, with improved job placement services. (MF)

A view of alumni, graduate and undergraduate activities of New York University's Business Education Department. (MB)

A program that individualized the learning of concepts, skills, and attitudes usually taught in typing, office practice, and office machines. (Author)

Summarizes the results of a community survey and discusses the contributions such surveys can make to education. (JS)