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§120.26. Keyboarding (One-Half to One Credit). (a) General requirements. Successful completion of a district-level proficiency test can be accepted as the equivalent for a prerequisite of one-half credit in Keyboarding. This course is recommended for students in Grades 9-10. (b) Introduction. Students apply technical skills to address business applications of emerging technologies. Students enhance reading, writing, computing, communications, and reasoning skills and apply them to the business environment. (c) Knowledge and skills. (1) The student applies the proper keyboarding technique to input data when using the computer or typewriter keyboard. The student is expected to: (A) demonstrate correct posture and position at the keyboard; (B) demonstrate proper care and operation of equipment used; (C) demonstrate the correct touch-system techniques for operating alphabetic keys; (D) demonstrate the correct touch-system techniques for operating numeric and symbol keys; (E) demonstrate the correct touch-system techniques for operating the ten-key numeric pad; and (F) demonstrate the correct use of the command and function keys. (2) The student formats and prints documents, for example, personal and business letters, short reports, outlines, and compositions. The student is expected to: (A) demonstrate the ability to work from printed, rough-draft, statistical, handwritten, and unarranged material; (B) demonstrate the ability to compose at the keyboard; (C) demonstrate the ability to proofread; (D) identify the parts of a personal and business letter; (E) format personal and business letters and envelopes; (F) format all pages of a report, including a title page, a reference page, and bibliography; (G) format an outline; and (H) demonstrate mastery of basic grammar, including use of punctuation marks, keying of numbers and symbols, and capitalization when composing. (3) The student applies correct techniques for the touch-system of operating the keyboard to develop speed and accuracy. The student is expected to: (A) demonstrate improvement in speed and accuracy; (B) demonstrate ability to proofread; (C) demonstrate ability to use the backspace key and correct errors; (D) apply speed and accuracy in production of documents; and (E) demonstrate mastery of basic grammar, including use of punctuation marks and capitalization. Source: The provisions of this §120.26 adopted to be effective September 1, 1998, 22 TexReg 4985. |
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