“Education” is a longitudinal process extended over a normal period of 10-15 years; especially in the era of technology one has to be lifelong learner. “Educated Person” is the product of this education process; which expected to be holistic in terms of professional, personal and social dimensions of individuals. Hence cognitive and non-cognitive skills development in individuals is basic requirement of the education. Paper highlights need of non-cognitive skill development and its importance. In order to measure cognitive aspect of learners there are well established methodologies but non- cognitive aspect is still a grey area from measurement and development point of view. Hence the second objective of the paper is to establish measurement process of non-cognitive skills as latent variable. Survey based instruments are normally used for such measurement; but the issue with long questionnaires leads to unreliable data captured through respondent as they do not respond genuinely. This leads to survey data is not real reflection of the respondent. Hence how we make reduction in long questionnaires without losing the objective by statistical means is expressed in the paper with example.

“Education” is a longitudinal process extended over a normal period of 10-15 years; especially in the era of technology one has to be lifelong learner.