Students need practice in decision making and problem solving, and sociodrama can provide this practice in a safe, nonthreatening context. It helps them to become aware of the typical ways they solve problems, and it increases both social and personal awareness. (Author)

Describes work at an American college with students who are receiving an introduction to colloquial German. Role-playing and picture stories prove useful in learning, in both productive and receptive aspects. Describing a picture on three levels--factual, psychological and contemplative--is shown to be very useful. (IFS/WGA)

Reports on a discussion between the editors of "Zielsprache Englisch" and three language teachers from a London language school, regarding games, role-playing, partner and group work, and the use of songs in teaching English. (IFS/WGA)

Seventy-five subjects, who spanned the range of assertiveness, completed two self-report measures of assertiveness, eight role-playing situations involving positive and negative assertiveness, and a telephone in-vivo task. Correlations between the three measurement methods were examined. (Author/SJL)

Utilization of audiovisual aids, role-playing exercises, and a guest speakers program contributes to the operational relevancy of standard undergraduate child psychology training. (LH)

Three studies investigating the psychometric and conceptual properties of the self-report Survey of Ethical Attitudes inventory indicated that the scale is clearly susceptible to response dissimulation through role playing and impression management and is also confounded with sources of stylistic variance in the form of social desirability.…

The article examines the role of simulation games in developing the leadership ability of girls, presents ten guidelines for development of simulation games, and gives an example of a simulation game. (PHR)

A Canadian political role-playing sequence helps secondary students understand the workings of Parliament and clarify their own values. The issue under debate is abolition or retention of capital punishment. Article describes rationale, teacher's instructions, roles, related legislature, rules of Parliamentary debate, public opinion polls, news…

The United Cerebral Palsy of Queens Center conducted a creative dramatics workshop for mental handicaps. Main objectives of the workshop were personality development and social improvement toward better job potential in the outside employment situation. (TA)

Students can use role playing to expand their imitative talents, to help in problem solving, and to experiment with different ways of being themselves. (MB)

Explores the relationship between Hong Kong secondary school English teachers' metalinguistic awareness and the ability to explain a grammar point. Teachers of different backgrounds and experience were asked to role play a grammar point on two separate occasions; videotapes of the role plays were transcribed and analyzed. (13 references)…

This article examines the motivation of certain creative behaviors from the perspective of symbolic interactionism. The fundamental tenets of symbolic interactionism are described and the mechanics of symbolic interactionist-based, role-identity theory are explained. Ways that the theory can be applied to the motivation of creative behavior are…

This article describes an enrichment program for gifted fifth-grade students, which focuses on American presidents. Students develop biographical profiles of a president whom they portray in various individual and group activities over a five-month period. The program addresses issues of leadership, ethics, and collaboration as well as building…

Explores ways in which expert and novice roles are constituted and maintained in an academic counseling encounter. Characterizes the meeting as a socializing, problem-solving event and uses functional linguistics and discourse analysis to describe how the counselor and student mark stance through linguistic choices such as polarity, modality,…

Recommends the use of role-playing as an effective summative activity that aids student learning and integrates science information and concepts. Describes the use of a role-play activity related to Senate hearings. (DDR)