Measurement in a strategic world

The nature of the proposed measure, it's relationship to the objective then becomes crucial in understanding both how a policy will evolve and what will be the nature of the outcome

The human resource development ministry declared, in June, that the Academic Performance Indicator (API)-based assessment system for college teachers is being removed. The background to this decision is that ever since the Merit Promotion Scheme for college teachers had been introduced in the mid-1980s, a concern was being raised that people were being promoted without regard to “academic quality". Thus, with a view to address these concerns, the UGC had been continuously tinkering with the requirements for promotion. Each innovation was introduced and then discarded on grounds of excessive “subjectivity”. Thus, approximately a decade ago, a more objective points-based system