Evaluation: Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and Society – 2020

Everything new cadets learned throughout Cadet Basic Training this summer were put to the test during the Kennedy Challenge at Camp Buckner Aug. 10. Whereas the Lambka Challenge during the first detail of CBT was a squad-level event, the Kennedy Challenge tested new cadets and their leadership based on their abilities to work as platoons. Events included air assault obstacles on the Marne Confidence Course, drill and ceremony, based on a drill competition model, tactical casualty care and communications and fire team live fire exercise. New cadets were also graded on their response to a chemical attack by how quickly and correctly they donned and sealed their protective masks, after which they had to move casualties out of the area before putting on additional protective gear. The final event before attending a memorial for Maj. Tom Kennedy, to whom the challenge and cadet task force was named, the platoon had to move a Zodiac raft about 40 meters from the dock to a floating platform before swimming the rest of the length of Lake Popolopen to the shore. U.S. Army photo by Mike Strasser/USMA PAO
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Individuals in modern societies live in a world in which evaluation is ubiquitous. More and more aspects of our performances are subject to informal and/or formal assessment. Everything from our health as infants, to our performance in schools as youngsters, our potential to benefit from higher education, and our capacity to contribute in the workplace is evaluated.

On this journey we will examine the social dimensions of the development and operation of different kinds of evaluation systems in modern societies. The journey is divided into an introduction and four projects.

Major topics include the social, political, and intellectual contexts for evaluation, the institutional bases of evaluation activities, the social settings in which evaluation takes place, and the effects of evaluations on individuals and groups.