A classroom exercise that involves college students in portraying individuals studied in a history of psychology course is described. Working in teams, students develop a presentation allowing figures from different time periods to discuss and debate psychological issues. Students also prepare a bibliography and position summary of the individual…

Features nine ERIC documents on the use of role playing in learning situations. (PD)

Offers evidence that demand characteristics referring to changes in clients' self-concepts are the common factors in psychotherapies. Unassertive subjects (N=87) were assigned to four types of imaginary role playing. Only the demand characteristics condition increased significantly in assertiveness and self-esteem and decreased significantly in…

Presents six-part methodology for teaching basic concepts of family systems to non-family therapists and describes application of methodology to teach primary care physicians. Explains use of simulated encounters in which a physically symptomatic adolescent is interviewed alone, then with his mother, then with his whole family. (Author/NRB)

Describes the Martin Marietta Corporation's modular training program that teaches managers to conduct performance appraisals. The article also explains the purposes of performance appraisals, outlines the components of a performance system, reviews the performance appraisal process, and discusses the use of role-playing. (CT)

Describes techniques to teach culture in a beginning foreign language class which facilitate understanding of behavioral patterns, attitudes, and value structures, rather than merely providing factual information. These include audiomotor units, minidramas, culture capsules, and role-playing activities. Also discusses how cultural as well as…

Student activities were overlooked in the recent national reports on education indicating the possibility that they are not considered significant. Provides a seven-step agenda for ensuring that such programs retain their position in the schools. (MD)

Discusses steps educators should work through when reviewing educational software, e.g., role playing intended users, analyzing instructional approach, identifying inaccuracies, using software and giving incorrect responses to see how software responds, and assessing the software's human values criteria. An educational software review form is…

Studied the effectiveness of sociodramatic goal-oriented role play and non-goal-oriented role play on locus of control in Black fifth-grade students (N=53). Results showed that internal locus of control significantly increased for the students who participated in the sociodramatic goal-oriented role play. (LLL)

A social language program was designed for severely and multiply handicapped secondary students. Through role play, students are exposed to a range of functional activities: socially appropriate informal and formal greetings, socially appropriate language in different settings, language appropriate to group situations, and appropriate responses to…

Describes a project in which children improved their own reading skills by teaching their teddybears to read. (DD)

In the 1972 Studies summary of his dissertation, Gene Mittler provided an instructional strategy that promised to be an effective means of improving elementary education majors' attitudes toward art. Article gave a brief overview of his study and a reexamination of his research design. (Author/RK)

This study tested the hypothesis that objective and subjective responsibility responses in moral judgment may be formally equal forms of cognitive organization. Results showed that subjects acting as offenders gave subjective responsibility responses; the same subjects acting as offended gave objective responsibility responses. Thus, subjects'…

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The League of Women Voters/Tallahassee responded to an opportunity to research the concerns of Florida's judiciary following the disrupted general election of 2000. It received a grant for the Judicial Independence Project, a project supported by a grant from the Program on Law and Society of the Open Society Institute, from the League of Women…