Claims self-generated cases overcome the disadvantages of standardized cases by including students' individual needs, interests, and areas of expertise, and by cultivating students' intellectual initiative as they invent original material. (MS)

Presents a tentative framework for a checklist for language simulation evaluation, which is meant as a practical device for improving success in simulations by analysing factors militating against completely successful simulations. Suggests four categories to be used in evaluating simulations: the simulation itself, the participants, the setting,…

The ways in which a futures and strategic planning preconference workshop provided an environmental scan to identify a number of issues facing higher education are described. Exercises designed to rank and evaluate these issues are discussed. (MLW)

Resources on games and simulations are provided. These include organizations, sources, teacher materials, and descriptions of a sampling of games and simulations. (RM)

No differential effects were revealed between minimal and relatively lengthy intervals in simulated and in vivo training of two students (8 and 13 years old) with severe handicaps. Performance in community fast food restaurants was measured. (CL)

Discusses various aspects of computerized testing: advantages of immediate feedback, on-the-spot score reporting, retention of scores on disks, the computer's potential as a simulation device, expert tests, embedded tests, intelligent tests, and adaptive testing. (CT)

Ohio State University's Construction Operation Simulation Laboratory uses experiential exercises to simulate different types of construction engineering and management operations for undergraduate/graduate students. It consists of four centers or rooms, each of which houses a specific facility. Describes the development of the laboratory and each…

A driver education program for mildly handicapped secondary students is described in terms of eligibility and placement criteria, program goals, and program phases (classroom instruction, simulator training, behind-the-wheel training, and parent involvement). Preliminary results indicated that the program is successful. (CL)

Relationships among goal setting, monetary incentives, two indexes of motivation, and performance were examined in an experimental simulation. Results suggested that goal-setting and monetary incentives were related independently to measures of motivation and performance. Incentives, however, had no impact on whether or not subjects set…

A unified approach to model building is developed from the separate techniques of regression, simulation, and factorial design. The methodology is applied in the context of a suburban school district. (Author/LS)

This paper reviews various procedures for constructing an interval for an individual's true score given the assumption that errors of measurement are distributed as binomial. This paper also presents two general interval estimation procedures (i.e., normal approximation and endpoints conversion methods) for an individual's true scale score;…

No one has ever been able to look into the language space, nor has anyone been able to measure the phenomenon of consciousness without the interference of an observer. This article changes the situation, showing that from now on it is possible to produce measures of consciousness without the presence of classical observation devices. The…

Most large-scale testing programs facing computerized adaptive testing (CAT) must face the challenge of maintaining extensive content requirements, but content constraints in computerized adaptive testing (CAT) can compromise the precision and efficiency that could be achieved by a pure maximum information adaptive testing algorithm. This…

This paper describes the development of globalization as a theme for the pre-conferences that precede the annual AHRD conference. It presents a qualitative case study of what it was like for students from the University of Minnesota to participate in the first globalization pre-conference and examines issues related to the discontinuance of the…