Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 3, March 20, 2024
A. In 1995, the National Business Education
Association published the National Standards for Business Education:
What America's Students Should Know and Be Able to Do In
Business.1 ( 1
National Standards for Business Education: What America's
Students Should Know and Be Able to Do In Business; National Business Education
Association, Reston, Virginia; 1995.) This document provides standards for
business education programs, defines the parameters of the discipline of
business education, and provides a guide for curriculum writers to use in
developing superior programs in business education. The standards are designed
to develop students' comprehensive knowledge and competence. The NBEA
recommends that students should be able to:
1. function as economically literate citizens
through the development of personal consumer economic skills, a knowledge of
social and government responsibility, and an understanding of business
operations;
2. demonstrate
interpersonal, teamwork, and leadership skills necessary to function in
multicultural business settings;
3.
develop career awareness and related skills to enable them to make viable
career choices and become employable in a variety of business
careers;
4. select and apply the
tools of technology as they relate to personal and business decision
making;
5. communicate effectively
as writers, listeners, and speakers in social and business settings;
6. use accounting procedures to make
decisions about planning, organizing, and allocating resources;
7. apply the principles of law in personal
and business settings;
8. prepare
to become entrepreneurs by drawing from their general understanding of all
aspects of business;
9. understand
the interrelationships of different functional areas of business and the impact
of one component on another;
10.
develop the ability to participate in business transactions in both the
domestic and international arenas;
11. develop the ability to market the assets
each individual has whether they be in the labor market or in the consumer
goods market;
12. manage data from
all of the functional areas of business needed to make wise management
decisions;
13. utilize analytical
tools needed to understand and make reasoned decisions about economic issues,
both personal and societal.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with R.S. l7:6.
