Describes and evaluates nine 3-day faculty education workshops designed to assist in developing skills for training and use of simulated patients. Conclusion: active participation in developing and using a new skill with immediate feedback from peers and students is effective for refreshing or developing educational skills of health professional…

Students solve the dilemma of planning for a decent standard of living while protecting the quality of our environment. Students act out the roles of members of a simple economy: producers, consumers, resource developers, environmental planners. An instructor's manual describes equipment, time needed, and steps for playing. (AV)

The use of simulation in the classroom has a lot to offer for the social studies teacher. It motivates students to a higher interest in the topic they are studying and causes them to be actively involved in the learning process. (Author/RK)

Demonstrates the mathematical equivalence of various school finance equalization formulas, describes the elements that complicate the preparation of a generalized simulation capability, and briefly presents a conceptualization of a generalized simulation model. (JG)

Attempts to determine the skills that make people good problem solvers and some of the methods that have been developed to teach these skills are reviewed. Methods used by educators and psychologists to define, describe, or analyze problems and problem solving determine the method used to teach problem-solving skills. (Author/MLW)

There is evidence that students who are given information about how they appear to weigh information in reaching a judgment can learn to make judgments more accurately. A microcomputer system was used to generate simulated cases and then calculate the relationship between the data presented and the student's diagnosis. (Author/MLW)

One dental school implemented in its fourth-year curriculum an intensive simulation exercise to teach students the application of fundamental economic concepts such as capital costs, leasehold improvements, operating expenses, working capital, and financial risk in dental practice. (MSE)

A method of teaching alternative dispute resolution (ADR) involves sending students to observe actual ADR sessions, by agreement with the agencies conducting them, and then analyzing the students' observations in focused discussions to improve student insight and understanding of the processes involved. (MSE)

The effects of sample size, number of variables, and population value of the congruence coefficient on the sampling distribution of the congruence coefficient were examined. Sample data were generated on the basis of the common factor model, and principal axes factor analyses were performed. (Author/LMO)

Describes a project that simulated the impact of three scenarios on health care patterns and the health situation of elderly people in the Netherlands. The discussion covers the utilization of outcomes by policymakers and future applications of simulations by scenario projects. (41 notes with references) (CLB)

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…

Presents materials necessary for conducting a mock disposition hearing in which students learn how courts deal with wayward and neglected juveniles. Intended to illustrate the problems that courts face in dealing with minors, the materials include activity instructions and a mock probation report to be used in the simulation. (GEA)

This article provides a five day unit for secondary students which demonstrates how limited information influences U.S. foreign policy decisions. Students assume roles as presidential advisors recommending actions among three imaginary foreign countries and the United States. (JDH)

The authors present strategies and methods for teaching generalizable skills (including demonstrating skills, grouping students, individualizing instruction, providing simulation and role-play activities, developing student teacher contracts, team-teaching, and designing individual learning activity packets). They also provide a discussion about…

Considers nature of debriefing, its central importance in experience-based learning, and its relationship to briefing, as well as debriefing's purposes, their relationship to different types of knowledge being processed, and various ways to organize the process. Suggestions to make the debriefing experience more effective are presented. (MBR)