This informal report describes uses of single-user, personalized computer systems at the University of Michigan and discusses the implications of new technologies for improving access to higher education. (Author/MP)

Examines the effects of selected educational simulation game design and process variables on participants' comprehension of decision-making criteria, interest in real-life analogue of the decision-making procedure, sense of group integration, and satisfaction with participation. (Editor/RK)

This study investigated a simulation game designed to improve relationship communication. Eight couples were treated for relationship difficulties by the use of the game. Results indicate that in the counseling session sample the couples' communication improved. (Author)

Describes a marketplace simulation game to help students understand the role of competition and the rationale behind buying and selling food and restaurant services. Cutouts (given in the article) are used to simulate elements in the game. Emphasis is on making decisions in business operation and consumer purchases. (MF)

From elementary science to creative writing--here are over 30 good ideas for stimulating elementary students to learn through discovery processes. (RK)

Describes the construction of paddle boats and inquiries that can be made with the boats. (SL)

Summarizes the main categories of games/simulations and lists games/simulations as to major field (physics, with 23 listed; chemistry, 24; biology, 107), providing information as to address for ordering, category, appropriate age group, number of players, time needed in computer simulation, price. Also listed are books, journals and addresses…

Describes WORDMZ, a computer program which can generate a number or letter maze. History teachers or students can input names, terms, or dates of interest; specify the size of a desired maze; and create different mazes with the same words in each. Concludes that mazes can be effective in motivating students. (AV)

Methods used to teach French as a second language to first- through sixth-graders includes games and activities to make learning fun, such as circle and ball games, flannel boards, and songs. (CB)

The Stock Market Game is a computerized simulation that involves high school students in trading eligible New York Stock Exchange stocks in an effort to make capital gains. Time required is ten weeks. The game is described; economic concepts that can be taught using the game are listed. (RM)

Three open-phrase games are presented which offer interesting experiences with substitution of numbers. Four open-sentence games are also described, two dealing with the initial stages of finding a partial solution and two requiring students to find the complete solution of an open sentence. (MNS)

The ecological knowledge of university students was analyzed under psychological and educational aspects via a computer simulation, an environmental game consisting of a variant of the Commons Dilemma, and a computerized text base on an actual environmental problem. Conditions impairing acquisition and use of ecological knowledge were discovered.…

The Simulation Game is proposed as a means of sensitizing professionals to problems and dilemmas of key team members (social workers, nurses, health educators, physicians, and clinical psychologists) in geriatric health care. The game involves role playing from cards which present difficult issues and cases in such care. (CB)

Suggests that simulations and new technologies present new ways to look at historical questions. Discusses approaches from basic board game simulations to the use of artificial intelligence. States that educators must accept new technologies as instructional tools and that the concept of history must be modified to work with these tools. (GEA)

Use of a checkbook can hook even the most reluctant mathematics students into learning mathematical and problem-solving skills. (CB)