A study looked at the effects of simulated encounters with instrumental music teaching problems upon the attitudes of instrumental music majors toward teaching and toward music teaching. Videotapes of critical teaching situations were developed and presented to an experimental group of college music majors workshop. A pretest-posttest control…

The purpose of this study was to formulate a linear programming model to simulate a foundation type support program and to apply this model to a state support program for the public elementary and secondary school districts in the State of Iowa. The model was successful in producing optimal solutions to five objective functions proposed for…

The question of how to deal with or prevent campus turmoil has not been adequately answered in the past, partly because conflict situations arise so unpredictably, making careful research difficult. A simulation study was conducted at a relatively conservative campus to try to answer in detail questions about the reactions of ordinary students to…

The simulated model office idea is to create, within a school, a unit which is as much like a real-life business as possible. To test the feasibility of incorporating this concept into high school business programs, a comparison was made between an experimental group of office simulation students and a control group of cooperative office practice…

This paper explains some of the problems with, and their importance to the application of, the Cross-Impact Matrix (CIM). The CIM is a research method designed to serve as a heuristic device to enhance a person's ability to think about the future and as an analytical device to be used by planners to help in actually forecasting future occurrences.…

The articles on simulation in education collected here include a primer on simulation, an introduction to the virtues of gaming, and examinations of the role of simulation in teaching geography, computer programing, international relations, and in teacher education. A consideration of the use of media in simulation and a discussion of crisis…

The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) may represent a breakthrough in the area of creativity research, since they provide a functional instrument for measuring creative potential in children, adolescents, and adults. However, there are certain technical problems with achieving interscorer reliability which may act as a deterrent to the…

CHARACTERISTICS AND CONSTRUCTION OF A COMPUTER SIMULATION MODEL FOR SIMULATING BEHAVIOR OF STUDENTS AND STAFF IN A SCHOOL WERE DESCRIBED. THIS MODEL INCORPORATED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND COMPUTER SIMULATION TECHNIQUES AND WAS EXPECTED TO PROVIDE DESIGN RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MORE PERVASIVE AND INTERGRATED CHANGES THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOLS. THE MODEL WAS…

This report describes the development of several new computer based strategies for teaching troubleshooting principles to electronics technicians. The computer programs to implement these strategies were developed in part from software produced in previous contracts. The report documents an experiment in which those materials were presented to…

The purpose of the study is to provide information concerning the self esteem of blacks and whites under conditions of integrative and segregative simulated work groups. Subjects were 96 undergraduate students, half black and half white, who performed three laboratory tasks. Ziller's self esteem scales were used to measure the self esteem of…

This research has as its basic premise the belief that physical and mental skills are highly similar, enough so in fact that computation paradigms such as the ones used in Artificial Intelligence research about predominantly mental skills can be usefully extended to include physical skills. This thesis is pursued experimentally by the…

An overview of recent developments in the theory of observers is presented, together with a simple design method that casts the problem in the form of a full order observer. Examples of observer performance are presented which are representative and suitable as demonstrations on small analog or hybrid computers. (Author/MH)

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate an experimental procedure which lends itself to the controlled study of adult moral behavior. The procedure is a variation of Prisoner's Dilemma, a game widely used for the study of conflict resolution. The conflict generated by the game is both interpersonal and intrapersonal. The key issue in the…

A video tape treatment packet was developed and evaluated to determine its effectiveness in improving parents' ability to understand and more appropriately respond to instances of child misbehavior. The treatment tape consisted of a 65 minute discussion and elaboration of specific psychological principles in conjunction with simulated examples of…