Suggestions are given for making inservice training more practically effective.

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

Describes a minicourse on energy and the environment for nonscience majors. A simulator is used to provide the student with a background on energy and environmental problems. (GA)

Outlines a model United Nations simulation which is applicable for high school or college use. It is played under the rules of an organization called the Model United Nations of the Far West, an association of 100 colleges in the western U.S. The simulation involves weekly mock sessions. (AV)

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.…

Targeted selection applies the five elements of the assessment-center method to selection interviewing of job applicants. Discusses the five reasons for the validity of the assessment-center method along with a parallel list of reasons for the validity of Targeted Selection. (EM)

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…

Using a very simple computer program written in BASIC, a very large number of random-generated DNA or RNA sequences are obtained. Students use these sequences to predict complementary sequences and translational products, evaluate base compositions, determine frequencies of particular triplet codons, and suggest possible secondary structures.…

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)

Described is a kit devised to give 13-16 year-olds experience in studying biological situations and making decisions with reference to the use of pesticides in the protection of crops and in public health. The report describes the background, aims, and evaluation of the kit. (Author/AJ)

Working simulation sets is as close as most high school accounting students come to actual job experience, according to the author. Suggestions are offered for motivating students, teaching the sets, establishing time goals, using a variety of sets with some student choice, and systematic student evaluation. (MF)