Essay On Quality Of Education

Across the growth literature, shift from agricultural to manufacturing to tertiary i.e. services is the trajectory to be followed for sustainable growth, in the process of which, the population also correspondingly shifts from rural to urban to work in the more advanced sectors. However, a large enough and robust manufacturing and service base industry requires skilled labour such that its efficiency is large enough to ensure profit-making. It is for this reason that elementary education in India holds relevance, for education not only aids the shift from agriculture to manufacturing and services but also increases labour productivity, which is necessary for sustainable growth.
Moreover, contemporary capitalism, along with its rhetoric of globalization,

From a policy perspective, it thus becomes necessary to understand what factors affect quality in this context.

Quality of Education in Developed Countries: The School Effectiveness group that emerged in the US and UK in the 1960s and dominated international discourse on education until the 1990s attempted to determine whether inputs, processes and school organizational factors affect student achievement, and to analyze the nature of such impact to implement informed changes for school improvement (Reddy, 2007). Within this tradition, three strands exist:

1) School Effects Research
Within the input-output paradigm, Coleman and Jencks’ paper found that school resources variables such as pupil expenditure accounted for only 10% of variance in pupil performance on standardized tests whereas the student’s background or socio-economic status played a determining role. (Reddy, 2007). By separating quality of inputs from quality of pedagogy, Coleman’s (1966) findings combined emphasis on imaginative teaching with interest in the student’s social reality (Kumar & Sarangapani,