Are Good Simulation Performers Consistently Good?

Abstract

The present study examines the relationship between simulation team performance over two rounds of play in the same simulation game but under changed environmental and competitive conditions. The rigorously controlled experiment involving 555 students on 161 teams found a medium to strong relationship (correlation of .441 9, significant at .000) between rank order performance in one round of the simulation competition versus rank order performance in the second round of the competition. It was concluded from this finding that simulation performance is relatively stable over time and that good performers will tend to remain good performers and poor performers will tend to remain poor performers.