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A Survey Of Graduates Of A One-Year Clerical Office Block Class —1976-1981— With Recommendations For Curriculum And Course Content Revision, Audrey Lee Watson

Masters Theses

Data were collected by means of a questionnaire sent to 92 Maple Valley Office Block students who graduated in the years 1976-1981 to determine if students are adequately prepared to acquire entry-level clerical/secretarial positions and to adjust to positions in business. Sixty-five questionnaires were returned for a 70% return.

Over 70% of the respondents were employed at the time the survey was conducted. Over 90% indicated the use of keyboarding equipment on the job. Almost 60% of the respondents used shorthand or machine transcription on the job. Frequent job responsibilities included filing, business machine usaqe, telephone usage, receiving visitors, and …

A Follow-Up Study Of The Master's Degree Graduates In The Department Of Business Education And Administrative Services At Western Michigan University, Jane Gustafson Morrison

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No abstract provided.

A Summary Of Experiences In An Internship In The Area Of School Business Management, Lawrence H. Stancliff

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No abstract provided.

A Five-Year Study Of Community College Business Graduates With Implications For Curriculum Improvement, Mary Elizabeth Foster

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A Study Of Current And Planned High School Business And Vocational Office Education Programs In Southwestern Michigan, John A. Fabrizio

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An Analysis Of The Relationship Between The Instructional Emphasis Of Two Filing Textbooks Commonly Used In Secondary Schools And Their Relation To The Filing Procedures In The Business Office, Patricia Ann Skinner

Masters Theses

This study compared the instructional material in two textbooks commonly used for high school filing instruction with the perceptions of records supervisors and office practice teachers.

A questionnaire was designed for each of the two major groups of respondents. Usable survey instruments were completed by supervisors of 67 offices in the Benton Harbor-St. Joseph area and office practice teachers in the 13 high schools in the same geographic area.

While the records supervisors and office practice teachers were in agreement on a number of points relating to the filing process and instructional emphases (using a rank-order mismatch formula), they were …

Twelfth Grade Public School Business Students Deficient In Fundamentals, Jeannette Lawhun

Masters Theses

Chapter I

Introduction

Fundamentals or basic tool subjects of education is an extremely timely topic at present, vital to continuing education, as is every other subject which animates, vitalizes, facilitates, and expedites learning, training, living, and self-realization of youth. This is particularly evident when considering the difficulties in the process and experience of education encountered by secondary pupils today. On every hand we are faced with appealing facts and figures--realities. Typical of these facts are some data in regard to drop outs from six successive classes from a school of Z County, Michigan, which groups had a combined total of …