Suggests that role playing can offset problems in teaching values clarification and moral reasoning at the elementary school level. Because role playing relies heavily on activity, it circumvents the problem of having a dilemma dealt with by discussion only. Role playing also allows students to take the perspective of others. (Author/KC)

The author describes how he impersonated Michelangelo while presenting a Renaissance art unit to his seventh- and eighth-grade class. (SJL)

Bridging the gap between the classroom and on-the-job application has been a growing concern to the sales training profession and of sales managers. "Curbstone Coaching," an on-the-job program in which sales managers train their sales representatives in selling skills is a possible solution. (JOW)

Teaching decision making in the classroom provides an excellent opportunity for students to clarify their feelings regarding problems that employers experience with entry-level employees. Some of these may include excessive absences, inappropriate dress, the effect of personal problems on job performance, and ethics in the work situation. (CT)

Handicapped individuals matched on self-reported assertiveness were assigned to one of two conditions. Behavioral role playing, self-report, and activity budget pre- and post-test measures revealed that assertion-training subjects reported greater gains in assertive behavior and showed greater improvement in performance on seven criterion measures…

Used a pretest/post-test control group design involving 44 female adolescent subjects to determine whether Moral Stage 3 subjects who have attained early basic formal operations are more susceptible to attempts to stimulate moral development than Stage 3 subjects who have attained only beginning formal operations and lack the cognitive…

An active learning approach, which included role playing, simulations of handicapping conditions, problem-solving activities, and open-ended discussions generally exerted a more positive effect on the attitudes of 50 undergraduate students toward exceptional children in an introductory special education course than did a traditional lecture…

Role playing by social work students as family members and therapists in a simulated family situation provides a stimulating learning experience for the participants and the student audience. (MS)

Describes role-play centers in which children can do math problems, invent, experiment, write with a purpose, and act out adult career roles. Examples of centers include a doctor's office, a supermarket, a fix-it or inventor's workshop, a post office, a pet store, a zoo, a veterinary clinic, a museum, and a restaurant. (DKM)

Examined the differences between compliment responses collected with two different data collection procedures: naturally occurring data analyzed through conversation analytic methodology, and elicited data collected via a discourse completion task (DCT). The DCT was designed to evoke the same discourse context and preceding context observed in the…

Presents tools to assist students with reflection on service learning: Kolb's experiential learning cycle, role playing, journal writing, and a map for planning reflection activities before, during, and after service. (SK)

Notes that though process drama is a touchstone of educational theatre, those who profess and practice it fail to engage in a critical examination of its efficacy. Contends that one of the reasons process drama does not accomplish what it sets out to do is because its role-play elements can be characterized as simplistic, restricted, stereotypical…

Provides a classification scheme for computer simulation, role playing, and educational games. Discusses outcomes of each when applied in business and management education and training. (Contains 52 references.) (SK)

Describes a class activity in which a student portrays the main character of a book and is interviewed, press conference style, by the class. Argues that responses to literature can be more fun with this unusual approach. (RS)

Describes two exercises in which undergraduates from abnormal psychology courses act as role-play clients for graduate counselor-trainees. Finds that the exercises seem to be educationally beneficial and may also help decrease undergraduates' negative stereotyping of persons with psychological problems. (KO)