The influences of materials and teacher training for the upper-bound simulation
parallel those observed in the lower-bound simulation.
Business simulation has less
Table 3j shows the outcome of the simulation for
impact than video materials for the advanced Japanese learners. As in the lower-bound
simulation, the effect of in-house teacher training is not as much of a value-added feature as
combining such training with use of business simulation materials (31% increase in the
pass rate compared to just 13%) The largest increase is again that modeled when video
materials are combined with teacher training, which leads to a 38% increase in the pass rate
over the baseline materials.
The answer to Program Issue 6 is basically that the same
program development strategy used for the lower level courses would work with the clients qualified for overseas posting - conduct in-house teacher training that focuses on the use of
simulation materials or video materials devised for business simulations.