The author is concerned with helping counselors make better use of simulated guidance materials. The role of simulated materials in the total scope of guidance services is discussed. There are suggested guidelines for their selection and evaluation as well as strategies designed to increase their impact on the counseling experience. (Author)

Examines claimed advantages and criticisms of the use of games in the study of social conflict, differentiating the advantages and criticisms into questions of internal validity, external validity, and ecological validity. Available from: Sage Publications, Inc., 275 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California 90212. (JG)

This article describes the process of designing an instructional simulation for orienting new residence hall employees to their job situations. (Author/STS)

Four approaches to simulation games are described; the puzzle approach, the colleague consultation, the geometry approach, and the inquiry approach. A sample geography game suitable for eighth grade students is described in detail. (STS)

Educational uses and implications of small inexpensive computers are discussed. (STS)

A simulation game entitled "Return on Investment" has proved effective in communicating to high school senior economics students the challenges involved in managing a large business. (Author/STS)

Provides evidence of the existence of serial position and isolation effects in a classroom lecture simulation involving extended meaningful discourse. Isolating an item facilitated learning of that item. (Author/DEP)

Claims self-generated cases overcome the disadvantages of standardized cases by including students' individual needs, interests, and areas of expertise, and by cultivating students' intellectual initiative as they invent original material. (MS)

Explains how computerized game-simulation experiments were conducted to ascertain responses to the 1980 eruptions of Mt. St. Helens (Washington). Results indicate different aspects of individual preferences and family decisions with respect to relocation: (1) highly consistent in the game simulation; (2) responsive to the simulated threat; and (3)…

A general latent variable model allows for maximum likelihood estimation with missing data. LISREL and LISCOMP programs may be used to carry out this estimation. Simulated data were generated. The proposed Full, Quasi-Likelihood estimator was found to be superior to listwise present quasi-likelihood and pairwise present approaches. (Author/GDC)

Provides full narrative reviews of B-1 Nuclear Bomber (Avalon, 1982); American History Adventure (Social Science Microcomputer Review Software, 1985); Government Simulations (Prentice-Hall, 1985); and The Great War, FDR and the New Deal, and Hitler's War, all from New Worlds Software, 1985. Lists additional information on five other history and…

Describes an ongoing research project designed to develop a computer model capable of simulating the service delivery activities of community mental health care centers and human service agencies. The goal and methodology of the project are described. (NB)

Reports on the current utilization level of computers in postsecondary accounting programs. Findings are taken from a survey of all 228 schools accredited by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. (CH)

Presents a tentative framework for a checklist for language simulation evaluation, which is meant as a practical device for improving success in simulations by analysing factors militating against completely successful simulations. Suggests four categories to be used in evaluating simulations: the simulation itself, the participants, the setting,…

The ways in which a futures and strategic planning preconference workshop provided an environmental scan to identify a number of issues facing higher education are described. Exercises designed to rank and evaluate these issues are discussed. (MLW)