Explores the benefits and hazards of staging simulated news incidents in the classroom to teach journalism students the need to maintain a professional stance at all times. (HTH)

Describes a computer simulation of getting information for news stories by interviewing various sources that was presented at a journalism workshop on databases and software for journalism education. (HTH)

Describes a multiformat simulation game based on the theme of budgeting for food and its original development as a manual exercise for use with old age pensioners. The game's current versions, their uses, and target audiences are discussed along with how the exercise was made generally available in a do-it-yourself package. (Author/MBR)

Describes a computer program which plots electric field line plots. Includes program listing, sample diagrams produced on a BBC model B microcomputer (which could be produced on other microcomputers by modifying the program), and a discussion of the properties of field lines. (JN)

Describes the Pedagogical mode of instruction developed for the U.S. Army's Videodisc Interpersonal Skills Training and Assessment project, which utilizes standardized role playing simulation with immediate feedback after each decision point to teach leadership and counseling skills. Instructional features unique to interpersonal skills training…

Describes computer simulations that combine abstract and conceptual learning to help create an intense, content-rich learning opportunity grounded in experience and reality. Examines learning with intent, limitations of computers, features of a good simulation, and linking contextual and abstract learning. (CT)

Synthesizes several themes that are common to the other chapters in this sourcebook and suggests additional considerations for using experiential and simulation techniques. The author reminds readers that, while educators and practitioners need practical tools to do their work, the importance of theoretical models, which assist in translating…

Arguing that students in journalism need to have more exposure to the design aspects of communication, this article describes a course that simulates employment at a design company. (HTH)

Argues that fictitious roles and situations, particularly if too far removed from the students' experiences, contribute to the failure of role-playing activities as a teaching technique in second language classes. Offers an alternative view of role-taking and eight principles to guide teachers in their selection and adaptation of role-play…

Discusses a procedure for individualizing foreign culture and language study. Students create a fictional autobiography of themselves in a foreign culture by adapting what they are learning to four simulated conditions: the physical, social, genetic, and temporal conditions which affect the life and personality of each individual in a culture.…

The determination of closed-loop response of processes containing dead-time is typically not covered in undergraduate process control, possibly because the solution by Laplace transforms requires the use of Pade approximation for dead-time, which makes the procedure lengthy and tedious. A computer-aided method is described which simplifies the…

Used a standardized treatment planning simulation and a process tracing strategy to qualitatively examine how mental health clinicians (N=15) solved a typical client management problem. Results showed that respondents used descriptive rather than formal diagnostic terms and that strategies varied with training and experience. (LLL)

The effects of some restraints not included in the classical assumptions of the F- and H-Test (e.g., correlation of mean and sample size) were examined in a simulation design. Also simulated was a situation in which two assumptions were not met simultaneously. (Author/BW)

Describes the use of two computer simulations in a journalism class to help teach information-gathering techniques and information evaluation. (HTH)

Computer generated data representative of 16 Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Averages (ARIMA) models were used to compare the results of interrupted time-series analysis using: (1) the known model identification, (2) an assumed (l,0,0) model, and (3) an assumed (3,0,0) model as an approximation to the General Transformation approach. (Author/BW)