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As part of an effort to provide standardized criterion measures across the Armed Services, the current research effort developed a set of service-wide criterion measures for first-term enlisted personnel using a recently developed model of cross-service job performance. Two concurrent work streams developed criterion measures which provide complete construct coverage of the cross-service performance model. Using existing service-specific instruments, methods for development of the Cross-Service Situational judgment Test (CSSJT), the Cross-Service Job Performance Ratings Scales (CSPRS), and two cross-service self-report measures (end of training and in unit surveys) are described and discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Criterion measures vary greatly in terms of their psychometric quality and ease of use. This paper serves two purposes. First, it provides a general summary of different approaches to criterion measurement in a military context. Second, it provides an extensive review of 16 specific types of criterion measurement methods (e.g., job performance rating scales, self-report questionnaires, job knowledge tests) on nine psychometric and ease-of-use evaluation factors. Eight criterion measurement experts read a summary of extant research and made ratings to evaluate each measurement method on the evaluation factors. Rater intra-class correlations (ICCs) were high, ranging from.75 to.95 across the evaluation dimensions with a median of.91. Data showed a quality-feasibility tradeoff, where criterion data that are easy to obtain often have technical flaws. Recommendations for military services and future directions in criterion measurement (e.g., applications of machine learning) are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

U.S. Military services use the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) and other indicators to select and classify about 150,000 enlisted personnel annually. The effectiveness of these assessments can be difficult to gauge due to differences in criteria across services and occupations. We developed a cross-service job performance model to be used in development of measures of first-term enlisted job performance. We synthesized job performance research, starting with the services' Job Performance Measurement (JPM) projects (1980s−1990s) through recent projects, to form performance dimensions. The dimension structure was evaluated in a retranslation exercise with performance measurement experts. The resulting hierarchical taxonomy has three levels: (a) 33 dimensions, (b) 11 categories, and (c) four broad categories. The broad performance categories are: (a) Technical, (b) Organizational Citizenship and Peer Leadership, (c) Psychosocial Well-Being, and (d) Physical. A sample of military experts judged the importance of the 33 performance dimensions. Results showed that the four broad performance categories were highly relevant to each service and generalizable across services. While all dimensions were judged important, Psychosocial Well-Being dimensions were rated as the most important by each service. The dimension structure provides a framework for criterion development and future joint-service research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It was there that, in 2009, Richard Swedberg shared with me an early version of Keith Tribe's Translation Appendix, now shared with the world in Tribe's I New Translation of Economy and Society i (2019). What Keith Tribe offers us, in his I New Translation i , might perhaps be seen as a sublimated (purified) version of Weber's Omega: the chapters of I Economy and Society i that Weber was in the process of revising, and had finally revised, at the point of his untimely death in 1920. In his essay for this Review Symposium, Keith Tribe invites us into a first-person narrative of discovery, beginning after 1976 in his "first real encounter" with Max Weber and culminating in his new translation of Weber's final/opening chapters for I Economy and Society i . [Extracted from the article]

This text is based on drifts through Glasgow and the new town of Cumbernauld. Memories, desires and stories of homes and streets surface through urban wanders on foot. In the wake of demolition and displacement, urban space is experienced as a terrain of loss, dreaming, contestation and possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]