This simulation study focused on the power of detecting group differences in linear growth trajectory parameters within the framework of structural equation modeling (SEM) and compared this approach with the more traditional repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) approach. Three broad conditions of group differences in linear growth…

The purposes of this study were to: (1) extend the sequential probability ratio testing (SPRT) procedure to polytomous item response theory (IRT) models in computerized classification testing (CCT); (2) compare polytomous items with dichotomous items using the SPRT procedure for their accuracy and efficiency; (3) study a direct approach in…

A simulation game provides a highly versatile model suitable for use is economics, political science or sociology lessons, or in any situation in which conflict of groups or individual interests are being examined. (Author/KM)

This essay explores the methodology of a new discipline, system dynamics, as an approach to the analysis of decisions in education. (Author)

Reported are results of a study which compared a traditional method of teaching office practice with a simulation method using MOE Simulation materials. It was found that using simulation was more effective in developing attitudes and personality traits important to the office worker. (SC)

General and specific directions are provided for the two-week simulation activity designed to acquaint students with laws, lawsuits, courtroom activity, and their relationship to the solution of environmental questions. (Author/SM)

Describes a class project where children found ways to adapt to routines, situations, and events of a real community to a simulated society in the classroom. (GB)

Considered the value of educational simulations in instructional areas and situations. (Author/RK)

The child's process of learning to read was simulated by teaching adults to associate Chinese characters with spoken words. When the students chose words to be learned, learning was more rapid than when words were selected by the examiner from a basal reader. (Author/JA)

a look at computer simulation, which belies a methodological distinction and is a relatively new approach to the study and further understanding of complex entities and situations. (Author)

Simulations for teaching environmental issues are described

Increased interest in the use of simulation and games as instructional techniques can motivate the teacher to create games which meet the students' needs at low cost. (JB)

Since the empirical status of simulation game use does not seem to substantiate all claims made for the games, methodological problems in games research are pointed out and new areas of scrutiny suggested. (KM)

A project is described which sought to explore a new form of game using a model social system. This is called Ecogame'' and involved an on-line interaction with a dynamic computerized model economy. (Author)