| With the changeover to sophisticated electronic systems, functions of today's office personnel have changed dramatically. As a result of word processing, the skill of machine transcription has taken on added importance. However, employees not only lack proficiency in this skill but often possess weak written language arts. Business educators, furthermore, have expressed concern that machine transcription is not adequately taught to students.; An instructional design, therefore, was prepared in machine transcription at the secondary level to be given for 20 weeks, 5 days a week, in approximately 45-minute periods. The design includes: (1) philosophy of machine transcription, (2) overall goals of machine transcription curriculum, (3) organizational structure of lessons, (4) sample lesson plans, including a model lesson with instructional materials, (5) chart summarizing content of machine transcription lessons and (6) synopsis of arts rules presented in lessons.; Since written language arts is an important subskill of machine transcription, the subject content for the design includes punctuation, spelling, grammar, capitalization, number usage, and syllabication usage. To determine this content, the following steps were taken: (1) Research studies in business education were reviewed to determine which categories, topics, and elements of English usage were considered important. (2) From the research studies, a raw data list which includes the six categories of English usage was developed. (3) Based on this data, ten selected textbooks used at the secondary level to teach transcription, business English and communications, and word processing were analyzed to identify which categories, topics, and elements of English usage appeared in the respective textbooks. (4) A "Panel of Experts' Rating Sheet" was prepared from the results of content analysis of the textbooks. (5) A panel of jury members responded to the rating sheet indicating degree of agreement as to the importance of categories, topics, and elements of English usage to be included in the design. (6) From these responses the first 25 topics of English usage were submitted to the panel for agreement of order.; An instructional design incorporating these topics was then developed, using as guidelines learning and instructional theories relevant to incremental learning. |
