Study indicated that the Fiscal Policy Game and materials are more than the conventional lecture-discussion technique in achieving behavioral objectives related to analysis and policy. (Author)

Five-to nine-year-olds engage in an after school program designed to develop their cognitive skills. (AJ)

Sees motives of cooperation and noncooperation as a function of the game's reward system and infers that the same motives may operate in real-life situations. Bibliography, tables, and graphs. (RW)

Argues that in teaching standard English to groups which, like Eskimos and speakers of Hawaiian Pidgin, are quite removed from mainstream American culture, role playing, as natural human behavior, can provide the bridge between classroom drill and real-life utilization of new language patterns. (FB)

NECA Luncheon speech presented at the American Personnel and Guidance Association Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 30, 1969.

Introduces journal issue devoted to youth in the electronic environment. Asks if contemporary adolescents are surrounded by an "electronic environment" and how that environment may influence their development and growth. (CMG)

The potential for use of simulation and game theory in social work education to make problem solving more real and to supplement experience in analysis is examined. Simulation models, materials, methods, and topics are discussed. (MSE)