Two approaches are described with their philosophic implications: building a model as preliminary to simulation game design, and discovering a model after the game has been developed. A third alternative presented attempts to span the chasm created by the first two and integrate both design processes. (VT)

Presents a nine-step process for designing simulation games for use by real-world clients in actual policymaking situations. For example, this design model could be used to produce a game for railroad company executives needing to explore the probable impact of railroad deregulation on its operation. (LLS)

This paper describes a computer model that simulates experimental outcome data obtained by the manipulation of 13 independent variables reported in studies investigating the group risky shift. The model is intended as a tool for teaching research methods in an undergraduate course in social psychology. (Author)

The heretofore implicit model underlying SIMSOC is made explicit through a comparison of the 1978 and 1972 versions of the simulation game. The more sophisticated 1978 game edition contains improvements over the earlier edition in the options for personal goals. (CMV)

A new computer simulation of student performance in the elementary classroom allows the model builder to incorporate into a mathematically precise computer model all the information on variables affecting pupil performance which research has uncovered. (HMD)