MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641126885 A) filed by Ch. Baby Prasuna on October 24, 2026, for A Psychometric Instrument For Assessing Value Orientation Of Adolescent Students.
Inventors include Ch. Baby Prasuna; T. G. Amuthavalli; C. Vani; Y. Devasena; and P. Preethi Vineela.
The application for the patent was published on October 30, 2026, under issue no. 44/2026.
Abstract: The invention relates to a Value Orientation Scale for pupils of Classes VIII and IX. The scale comprises fifty items on a five-point format under four psycho-social dimensions: personal values, social values, moral values and environmental values. Thirty-four items are positively keyed and sixteen are negatively keyed. Reliability is 0.86 and validity is 0.75. The scale is administered in classroom or research settings and yields dimension-wise and total scores after reverse-scoring of negative items. Four figures illustrate the dimensional structure, construction method, response format and scoring process.
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