The use of a game simulating a political convention was found to improve both students' and parents' attitudes toward social studies. (RT)

Examines the effect of a role-specific simulation upon student knowledge, motivation, and evaluation of the course and instructor in an undergraduate political science course. Results indicate that role-specific simulations can have a positive effect on the learning process. (Author/CMV)

Using Adar's fourfold classification of students according to dominant motive for learning, it is argued that simulation games possess greater motivational power than other techniques of instruction given their ability to overcome three motivational difficulties. (CMV)

This discussion of research methodologies and performance prediction in business simulations describes a study of undergraduates that considered time in the prediction of simulation performance, and explored how relationships between performance and its antecedents vary over the simulation's duration. Hypotheses tested are explained and results of…