Mock negotiations are used as part of an undergraduate course in international business management at Lebanon Valley College (Pennsylvania) in order to introduce students to the process of negotiating for advantage in foreign countries and to emphasize the importance of an individual nation's customs, culture, and ways of transacting business in…

This paper explores a logistic regression procedure for estimating item parameters in the Rasch model and testing the hypothesis of item parameter invariance across several groups/populations. Rather than using item responses directly, the procedure relies on "pseudo-paired comparisons" (PC) statistics defined over all possible pairs of…

Studies of differential item functioning (DIF) under item response theory require that item parameter estimates be placed on the same metric before comparisons can be made. Evidence that methods for linking metrics may be influenced by the presence of differentially functioning items has been inconsistent. The effects of three methods for linking…

This paper identifies, structures, and defines a list of cost elements that is intended to describe fully the life-cycle cost of any formal program, course, or device for individual training of Department of Defense personnel. It was developed to provide consistent, comparable, and credible evaluations of the cost-effectiveness of alternative…

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Teaching about the future is the topic of this annotated bibliography. The following kinds and amounts of materials are cited: (1) 14 citations from "Resources in Education" (RIE); (2) 12 citations from "Current Index to Journals in Education" (CIJE); (3) 29 commercially available "Student and Teacher Materials" (11…

A professional writing course can be both technical and humanistic by incorporating into the course a formal report assignment in which students pick a subject in the humanities about which they wish to know more. Once the students decide on topics to research, they develop a scenario in which they define a person or group who needs the…

The article compares the relative effectiveness of teaching environmental education to high school students using conventional instruction, a simulation exercise, and a simulation game. (CD)

Illustrates the approach of using viewable computer programs to simulate ecological processes. Gives a detailed example dealing with population dynamics. (LS)

A series of simulated patient experiences were presented to two groups of five students concurrently with a regularly scheduled integrated course in neuroscience. Results showed increased motivation, problem solving, and self-study skills in the experimental groups as compared to the control groups, which were also enrolled in the neuroscience…

A simulation designed to examine American responsibility with respect to global hunger is provided. Students play American leaders who must choose between conflicting national and international priorities. (Author/DE)

The author discusses some disadvantages to simulation and gaming techniques. Instead he advocates and examines the educational advantages of student participation in real world field research. Included in the article is an example of a student attempting to live on the amount a person on welfare would receive. Further ideas for student field…

Lectures and classroom games are compared in terms of fact and concept, of inducing change in certain political attitudes, and of student evaluations in an introductory American government course. The results are inconclusive. (DE)

The office block program, utilizing a two- or three-hour time block, bridges the gap between high school students' classroom training experiences and their initial office jobs. Some of the instructional strategies include group and individualized instruction, integrated exercises, and simulation, including the model office. (MW)