Suggested units of study to guide the choice of curriculum in office occupations education are communication skills, filing, mail, reprographics, payroll, and banking. (SK)

Using office simulation in a practice/procedures class better prepares students to deal with actual working situations. To facilitate the office simulation, one must consider available equipment, provide interesting programs, be aware of student needs, provide realistic evaluation, and be an enthusiastic and flexible teacher. (JOW)

Discusses an approach to teaching typewriting that may result in higher student achievement by having students spell out loud newly presented keys during keyboard instruction. (JOW)

The National Micrographics Association has prepared a general "micrographics in office administration" course syllabus. It can be used as a guideline in determining learning objectives, course content and course resource material. (Author/JOW)

The present and future office worker will always be confronted by the awesome task of keyboarding numbers. The introduction of the metric system and the use of the uni- and duodigit approach to keyboarding digits into number, which is described, may be combined to help make this an easier task. (CT)

An exemplary project was funded in North Dakota to develop, implement, and evaluate a versatile office simulation program that would meet the needs of secondary students in varying situations. The Occupational Model Plan can substitute for, or complement the cooperative method in vocational office education. (Author/KP)

The evidence for the Terzuolo and Viviani central control model of timing in typing was questioned, using data collected from skilled typists and data published by Terzuolo and Viviani. (In this model keystroke times are generated in parallel from centrally stored, word-specific timing patterns. Differences in overall time to type a given word are…