Reviews the evolution of the journal "Simulation and Games" and examines the various topics addressed by contributors over the past 20 years. A history of gaming and simulation is given, and the results of a content analysis of all articles are provided. (LRW)

Describes a study designed to determine whether students with different personality types react differently to different educational games and simulations. The thinking-feeling dimension of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was used to type a group of graduate students who participated in seven simulation games and simulations. (Author/LLS)

A study to determine whether a relationship exists between a seventh grader's performance on a simulation game and on an academic ability test suggests that measures of game performance ability may differ from measures of academic ability in three ways. (LLS)

Describes two studies conducted to test the hypotheses that groups would make more risky decisions than individuals when insignificant consequences were present, and that groups would make more conservative decisions than individuals when significant consequences were present. Twenty references are listed. (LLS)

Describes a study designed to determine the effect of participation in a simulation game (SIMSOC: Simulated Society) on two types of cognitive knowledge: test performance and concept recognition ability. (Author/LLS)

A questionnaire was used to measure attitudes toward labor and management both before and after eight hours of simulated negotiations. Subjects were management representatives and local union officers enrolled in two adult education classes. It was found that any attitude change tended to be small and probably short term.

Comparisons were made of attitudes and behavior between single- and multiperson teams in business simulation games. Multiperson games gave rise to higher initial goals for business success, but lower individual feelings of responsibility for outcome. (CMV)

Designed to determine whether research in simulation and gaming follows research design methodology and the degree to which research is directed toward learning outcomes measured by Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives, this article examines studies reported in proceedings from the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential…

Clarifies appropriateness of certain simulation approaches by distinguishing between different types of simulations--experimental, predictive, evaluative, and educational--on the basis of purpose, assumptions, procedures, and criteria for evaluating. The kinds of questions each type best responds to are discussed. (65 references) (MBR)

A study designed to determine the extent of improvement in performance as a result of a structured experiential learning situation assessed particular techniques for reinforcing learning in a personnel administration class. Confidence in knowledge scores increased from pretest to posttest for most students, but only some knowledge scores…

Explores different measures of performance in a complex management game and suggests how these measures can be used to motivate learning and evaluate performance. (Author)

Describes RESTSIM, an interactive computer simulation program for graduate and upper-level undergraduate management, marketing, and retailing courses, which introduces naive users to simulation as a decision support technique, and provides a vehicle for studying various statistical procedures for evaluating simulation output. (MBR)

Assesses effects of a popular simulation game on attitudes of ethnocentrism and dogmatism in college students. Review of the game, its relationship to an educational philosophy course, background research, problems in assessing effects of games, and methods and outcomes of this study are discussed. Nine references and appendices are provided. (EJS)

Describes a study which used a graduate-level business game to examine consequences of objectively determined fit between managers' specialized competence and their functional roles in terms of individual and group performance. The game simulates a work environment of top-level management in industrial firms with responsibility for making…

Study designed to determine which version of a game developed in strict compliance with competing models of incentive and dissonance would be more effective in producing attitude change found that results were similar in the experimental groups. Similarity is attributed to sense of identification with simulation characters reported by subjects.…