Measuring results in education

Highlights the issues in the field of education. Progress made in the art of teaching and practice of administration has been through trial and error. There is a need for scientific work in the field, which can furnish the basis for rapid elimination of mistakes in the current practice and pave the way for improved organization of teaching. A number of factors are responsible for the delay in progress of standardizing education by means of accurate measurement. One reason for the delay is, the fallacious reasoning that the only criterion to measure school success is found in the individuals who are subjected to the process. The need to have scales and units of measurements for school success has been emphasized. A considerable amount of work has been done in the area of administration. The problem of proper distribution of marks, and similar concepts, must be studied in depth, in order to establish the profession of education.