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来源类型 | Report |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.7249/RR2555 |
来源ID | RR-2555-OSD |
Meeting the Language and Culture Training Needs of U.S. Department of Defense Personnel: An Evaluation of the Language Training Center Program | |
Jennifer J. Li; Richard S. Girven; Norah Griffin | |
发表日期 | 2019-05-13 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
结论 | Fulfilling its mandate, with opportunities to become stronger
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摘要 | The U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD's) Language Training Center (LTC) Program leverages the expertise and infrastructure of institutions of higher education to train DoD personnel in language, culture, and regional area studies. The Defense Language and National Security Education Office (DLNSEO) asked the RAND Corporation to examine the LTC Program, which was established in 2011 and included centers at nine universities in the fiscal year 2017 grant cycle. This evaluation was meant to assist DoD in making informed decisions about the viability and continuation of the program. Through site visits to each of the nine centers, interviews, and analysis of program data, RAND researchers found that the LTC Program is meeting the vast majority of the requirements of its authorizing legislation: building skills in language and area studies, providing language training in critical and strategic languages for operational readiness, and using alternative language training delivery systems to provide training to a wide variety of DoD partners. ,A key recommendation is for DLNSEO and its administrative partner, the Institute of International Education, to encourage each LTC to articulate objectives that go beyond provision of training and represent meaningful training outcomes for the DoD partners and students. The challenges that lie ahead will be to (1) encourage increased consistency across the program in areas where it makes sense while still providing opportunities for uniqueness and creativity at each of the LTCs and (2) increase meaningful measurement of outcomes while continuing to support responsiveness, innovation, and, potentially, further growth. |
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主题 | Military Education and Training ; Multicultural Education ; Program Evaluation ; United States Department of Defense |
URL | https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2555.html |
来源智库 | RAND Corporation (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/523796 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jennifer J. Li,Richard S. Girven,Norah Griffin. Meeting the Language and Culture Training Needs of U.S. Department of Defense Personnel: An Evaluation of the Language Training Center Program. 2019. |
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