Strategies for encouraging students to articulate and examine their personal values are suggested.

The developmental history and nature of the written simulation technique is described, a study of the validity of four written simulations in clinical pharmacy is reported, and the implications of this study and its findings for the use of written simulations in continuing pharmaceutical education are identified. (JMD)

A program of continuing education is described in which lecture, skits, and audience participation are employed to teach practicing pharmacists how to improve their communication skills. Both live and videotape presentations were found to be effective teaching methods. Learning objectives and factors affecting communication are appended. (JMD)

Explains how simulation games clarify the relationship between the abstractions of sociological theory and everyday experience. Illustrates cognitive and affective benefits of simulation by examining graduate students' reaction papers after playing a cultural awareness game. (Author/AV)

Computer-based simulations of the patient-physician encounter have been used at the University of Wisconsin Medical School for five years. They have been used to permit students to gain clinical experience, as part of a series of structured teaching conferences, and in a medical testing program. Student and faculty response is favorable.…

Thirty students were placed in a traditional or one of two experimental courses that each used television and simulation but differed in the way the history-taking demonstrations were presented. Videotapes of later history-taking from a simulated patient indicated that students in experimental courses obtained more information and used more…

Described is the development of a simulation, or model of an existing congested pedestrian crossing situation by elementary school students in order to conduct trials of their solutions. (MN)

A class activity involving role play introduces the concept of human nature as it relates to political phenomena. The lesson involves development of the concept of human nature, reference to its usage by various political theorists, and student speculation about human nature as it relates to their political life in the classroom. (Author/AV)

Describes a simulated grouping exercise, carried out at a learning-disability conference in Texas, which revealed that grouping practices in 1985 may be flexible enough to allow teachers to select students, teaching techniques, and instructional materials. (MB)

Discusses the use of simulations as an alternative form of instruction for teaching general level students. Describes how the author used a simulation in a general level history class with positive results. Concludes that simulation is a teaching method which is well-suited to the goal of assisting non-college bound students in acquiring necessary…

Describes a project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology concerned with making computer-assisted instruction more "human," communicative, and interactive for students learning a foreign language. The goal of the project is to create prototypes for beginning and intermediate courses in French, German, Spanish, Russian, and English as…

Considers two basic models of the teaching-learning process, described as the didactic and the communication models, and applies them to computer assisted learning. Conventional and intelligent tutorials and simulation are used as examples to compare the amount of control students have over learning strategy, content manipulation, and domain…

Use of a computerized simulation entitled "A Simulation of the First Year Teaching" by students in a teaching procedures class in physical education is described. (MT)

Presents a six-day lesson in which two different classes role play the U.S. House and U.S. Senate to simulate the bicameral nature of the U.S. government. Students use actual federal or state legislation or write their own bills, and then work through the process of passing them into law or rejecting them. (GEA)

To establish meaningful links between preservice and inservice teachers' background experiences and abstract concepts, relevant research studies are simulated in teacher training sessions. A simulated research activity is described, using the example of helping teachers understand models of memory to better teach mnemonic strategies to handicapped…