Date of Award
4-1973
Degree Name
Master of Arts
First Advisor
Dr. L. Michael Moskovis
Second Advisor
Dr. Kimon Boumazos
Third Advisor
Dr. Earl Halvas
Fourth Advisor
Dr. Cameron Lambe
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
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 in great disagreement as to the importance of teaching the following: subject filing, geographic filing, numeric filing, tabs, requisitions, file labels, charge out, release, date and time stamping, and coding.
Because of the disagreement regarding the importance or unimportance of teaching certain file tasks, office education teachers should by task analysis determine those file tasks performed by office workers in their specific employment area for purposes of updating course content.
Recommended Citation
Skinner, Patricia Ann, "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" (1973). Masters Theses. 2711.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/2711