The Operating Growth Budget at Yale University is a model used to indicate what would happen to the university's various endowment funds over a substantial period of time, under verying conditions of both university policy and the business cycle. The role of the return from endowment in the operating budget can thus be calculated for yearly…

Personal finance is the subject of this career oriented gaming/simulation manual for grades 7-9. Directly linked to basic skills in reading and mathematics, each game or simulation contains the following: a summary of each activity; a statement of learning objective(s) keyed to skill areas; a teacher's guide; and student activity sheets and…

The present paper employs a behavioral simulation model and data on 4,693 school districts to provide new information about the expenditure effects of the current Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I program and three major alternatives. The model examines the likely effect of the four options, differing in the choice of targets…

The Academic Game, considered a valuable exercise for academics and administrators in investigating some of the problems of decision-making and possible ways of facilitating organizational decisions, is described. The major objective of the game is to achieve on agreed promotion policy. The roles and organization structure are designed to ensure…

The simulation materials in this booklet have been presented in the form of problems encountered by the school board trustee. The use of these materials can be directed to serve the following objectives: (1) improve skills related to the administrative processes of decision-making, supervision, planning, and problem-solving; (2) increase…

A simulated micro-society simulation/game was applied as an experimental treatment to compare the impact of high and low rate of change social environments upon individual's time perspectives. Subjects were 187 university undergraduate and graduate students who completed the covariate "Social Readjustment Rating Scale" and then were randomly…

Superport is a learning experience which requires students to examine how a superport and its related industries will affect the marine environment of a given geographical area. The activity is designed to provide roles for up to 90 students. The simulation begins with the students defining factors that might be related to the installation of a…

This book on writing behavioral contracts is structured to give the reader an opportunity to use contingency contracting in a situation that resembles the real world. Contracting is a technique used to structure behavior counseling by making each of the necessary elements of the process so clear and explicit that they may be written into an…

The purpose of this study was to develop a screening procedure for undergraduate pilot training (UPT). This procedure was based upon the use of ground-based instrument trainers in which UPT candidates, naive to flying, were evaluated in their performance of job sample tasks; i.e., basic instrument flying. Training and testing sessions were…

APEX is a computerized gaming simulation; it is also the name of an interdisciplinary course in environmental problems in urban areas introduced at the School of Health Science, Hunter College of the City University of New York. In the course, students assume the roles of decision makers in both the private and public sectors. They receive data…

The teacher of library science can use case studies, simulations, and role playing to acquaint future librarians with the realities of library management. By using models, contextual statements, incident materials, and course management materials, the students can be involved in specific library problems which will later have broad on-the-job…

As a companion to a research report describing the evaluation of a simulation-style instructional package for training in electronic equipment maintenance, this appendix includes: (1) a copy of the instructor's lesson plan; (2) a handout on power supply procedure; (3) samples of troubleshooting simulations; (4) instructor recording forms; (5)…

The presentation explores the efficiency of the Moulton-Blake managerial Grid as the theoretical base for a decision simulation focusing on the leadership styles practiced by elementary principals. Three decision areas--organization, curriclum, and interpersonal relations--are identified as key areas in which elementary principals are expected to…

Stability of Type I error rates and power are investigated for three forms of the Box test and two forms of the jackknife test with equal and unequal sample sizes under conditions of normality and nonnormality. The Box test is shown to be robust to violations of the assumption of normality when sampling is from leptokurtic populations. The…

A computer based simulation program to provide teacher-trainees with practice in making pupil behavioral interventions has been developed using the cases of five hypothetical handicapped children. The trainee can choose to function in any of three modes: task or information sharing, intervention or control, or prevention aimed at keeping the pupil…