Demonstrates that an elementary understanding of computer programing and the development and illustration of the structure of computer program analysis will be valuable assets in the understanding and teaching of mathematics and may be used as modeling devices to simulate the stages of learning. (Author)

Describes how teachers turned the reality of the nuclear reactor incident at Three Mile Island into a learning experience for children by recreating the sequence of events through creative dramatics. (CM)

Two of the problems associated with games and simulations developed for environmental education (limited player participation and lack of economic relationships) are addressed by outlining a framework within which further game development and evaluation may take place. Four games illustrating the application of this framework are outlined. (BT)

An office simulation devised at an Oregon community college is now being offered in other U.S. and Canadian colleges and high schools. Each simulation employs from 4 to 36 individuals in three areas: main office, training division, and supportive services (customers, bank, etc.). "Employees" rotate positions every three weeks. (AJ)

A summary of research relating to educational goals that may be achieved through simulation/gaming techniques. Goals include factual knowledge; intellectual skills, psychomotor skills, attitude changes, and motivation. Also covers design and use factors affecting goal achievement. (Author/LS)

Answers to questions a business teacher may have about implementing model office simulation are discussed: Reasons for using simulation, how simulation fits into the curriculum, administrative support, equipment, starting the project, preventing problems through staff meetings with students. (TA)

The author describes how the office simulation class at Cleveland High School (Tennessee) is bridging the gap from the classroom to the office. (HD)

This component of the project attempts to facilitate planning by furnishing models that manage cumbersome and complex data, supply an objectivity that identifies all relationships between elements of the model, and provide a quantitative model allowing for various forecasting techniques that describe the long-range impact of decisions. (Author/IRT)

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Describes a problem-based course in developmental support communications sponsored by the Media Department of the British Council. Participants from developing nations learned to analyze problems in non-formal education, improve their decision-making, and plan, produce and evaluate materials for a specified audience. (Author/BD)

Describes a news conference simulation involving students from business communication classes and presentational speaking classes, which is used to prepare business students to "think on their feet" while under stress and facing a potentially hostile audience--conditions that business professionals are apt to encounter. (SR)

Presents a simulation that helps students understand the concepts of equilibrium and Le Chatelier's principle. (JRH)

Purdue University (Indiana) is developing a series of computer modules of state-of-the-art chemical engineering processes to serve as the basis for computer-simulated experiments. One, sponsored by Procter and Gamble, models the extraction step in the decaffeination process and allows students to determine the optimal extraction conditions for…

One-parameter (1PPC) and two-parameter partial credit (2PPC) models were compared using real and simulated data with constructed response items present. Results suggest that the more flexible three-parameter logistic-2PPC model combination produces better model fit than the combination of the one-parameter logistic and the 1PPC models. (SLD)