TY  - BOOK
AU  - DeCamp,Jennifer
AU  - Meadows,Sarah O.
AU  - Costa,Barry
AU  - Williams,Kayla M.
AU  - Bornmann,John
AU  - Overton,Mark
ED  - National Defense Research Institute (U.S.).
ED  - Rand Corporation.
ED  - Mitre Corporation.
ED  - United States.
TI  - An assessment of the ability of the U.S. Department of Defense and the services to measure and track language and culture training and capabilities among general purpose forces
SN  - 0833076671
AV  - U716 .A88 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - United States
KW  - Department of Defense
KW  - Personnel management
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Cultural competence
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Military education
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Education, Non-military
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - Education
N1  - "MITRE."; "RAND National Defense Research Institute."; "This research was … conducted jointly by the MITRE Corporation Department of Social, Behavioral, and Linguistic Sciences and within the RAND Corporation Forces and Resources Policy Center of the RAND National Security Research Institute"--Preface; Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-61); Introduction -- Methodology and Data -- Impact of LREC Training and Capabilities on Mission Readiness and Accomplishment -- The U.S. Department of Defense’s Ability to Track LREC Training and Capabilities -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Appendix A. Policies and Directives Reviewed for This Analysis -- Appendix B. Interview List -- Appendix C. Interview Questions -- Appendix D. Five-Percent Confidence Intervals for the Status-of-Forces Analysis; Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - The Defense Language Office tasked MITRE Corporation and the RAND National Defense Research Institute to jointly address questions concerning the U.S. Department of Defense’s ability to measure and track the language, regional expertise, and culture (LREC) training and capabilities of general purpose forces (GPF). The authors used interviews with LREC practitioners and policymakers, a policy review, an academic literature review, and an analysis of survey data to address the research questions. Immediate recommendations include standardizing terms, developing measures of mission effectiveness, and collecting data to assess connections between LREC training and skills and mission success. Long-term planning should include efforts to develop a strong infrastructure across LREC stakeholders such that information can easily be shared, a theoretically sound causal model linking LREC skills to mission success, and tests of skills linked to mission readiness. The ultimate goal of these activities is to develop a set of readiness metrics, both at the general level for all GPF and at the mission-specific level, when specialized LREC skills may be required
UR  - http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1192.html
ER  -