Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1976

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Buckner, Leroy M.

Abstract

The Distributive Education program has its roots in both educatio and distribution. This environment encompasses Distributive Education as an educational service to marketing and distribution. Distributive Education has as one of its purposes a commitment to teach the skills and competencies needed for employment of secondary and post-secondary students for careers in marketing and distribution. In the past few years Distributive Education has seen the advent of the Interstate Distributive Education Curriculum Consortium (IDECC). This study dealt with an analysis of 76 jobs in distribution and the creation of Learning Activities Packages (LAP's) that would develop 983 technical competencies needed to master the 76 jobs. The competency areas developed included: advertising, communications, display, human relations, mathematics, merchandising, operations and management, product and service technology, and selling. Related to all other areas of instruction and to all competencies needed in distributive employment are certain economic understandings. These understandings should facilitate the distributive process by serving as a basis for management decisions and by enabling employees to comprehend the reasons for certain processes and procedures. The economic understandings and concepts have never been integrated into the IDECC system. The purpose of this project is to integr ate economic understandings and concepts of our free enterprise system into the Learning Activity Packages of the Intersiate Distributive Education Curriculum Consortium. This study proves conclusively that a Distributive Education student needs some knowledge of economic understandings and concepts. He does not need to be extensively exposed to economics in the form of the focus of a course but should know those economic concepts which are necessary to master the 983 technical competencies in the IDECC system and which will enable a Distributive Education student to perform adequetely as an employee entering a job area in the field of marketing and distribution. The highlights of this study are a complete list of economic concepts which a Distributive Education student should know, and a competency - concept matrix which matches each competency in the IDECC system with an economic concept.

Extent

191 p.

Comments

College of Education|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.|College of Education

Identifier

FA00000633

Format

pdf

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