This guide is designed to provide job-relevant tasks, performance objectives, performance guides, resources, teaching activities, evaluation standards, and achievement testing for the occupation of information processing specialist. It can be used with any teaching method, and it addresses all three domains of learning: psychomotor, cognitive, and affective. The guide contains six units that cover the following topics: supervising information processing activities; supervising information processing employees; entering and storing documents and files; editing and correcting documents and files; printing, distributing, and receiving output; and performing related administrative support activities. Each unit consists of lessons based on performance objectives. Units contain tasks, standards of performance, source of standards, conditions for performance, enabling objectives, resources, teaching activities, criterion-referenced measures, performance guide, and checklists for performance evaluation. A bibliography completes the guide. (KC)