Guidance Services: Individual Inventory Services /

Pupil Inventory Service/ Self Inventory Services

यि तगत अनुसचू ी सेवा / यि तगत व लेषण सेवा / आ म

अनुसच
ू ी सेवा

K.K. Chauhan
Assistant Professor
Department of Education,
C.S.J.M. University, Kanpur
Email: aprof.kkc@gmail.com
 Individual Inventory Service:
This service aims to gathered information about the
students to better understanding them.
Also it assists to know the student “himself” at the
time of taking any decisions.
Really the student proceeds in his educational set-up
according to his own abilities, interests, aptitudes, attitudes
and skills.
The adequate and accurate data are collected for the same
purpose.

The Guidance Office keeps an organized & systematic

record of each student. All personal information is kept
confidential.
 All information gathered about each student

stored in the cumulative folder

Where data accumulated about each student are kept while the
student is still in school.
 Aims of Individual–Inventory Services
The individual or student’s information is needed
To assist the student to know the clear picture of his
abilities, interests, aptitudes, skills, personality
characteristics, achievement standard, level of aspiration
and his physical health status as well as his mental
capacities.
To identify the clear picture various abilities of the students
by administration of various tests; and
It assists student to know himself from various point of
view such as socio-economic-status, family background,
educational status of family etc.
It helps student to provide a record of the academic status
and his progress.
Maintain various records concerned to each students and to
update them.

The collected data are personal, family data, psychological

data, achievement, health data, etc. This obtained data helps
in their Guidance process.
 Steps of Individual Inventory Service:
A. Exploratory Experience
Data Collection: The Individual Inventory collects the Following Data
regarding student’s.
1. General Information 1 Achievement
2. ability, 2 interests,
3. aptitudes, 3 skills,
4. habit patterns, 4 family background,
5. socio- economic-status, 5 health,
6. vocational interest, 6 educational standard,
7. curricular and co-curricular activities, 7 Personal-Social Adjustments
8. Parental aspirations etc.
Meant for measuring
1. intelligence, 3 creativity,
2. adjustment abilities and 4 other psychological traits.
Should be collected by guidance personnel.
The guidance worker should take the help of different tools
and techniques such as
Interviews,
Observations,
Case study,
incidental records,
Cumulative record cards,
Questionnaires,
Rating scales,
Standardized test, and
Inventories
Autobiographical Sketch
Anecdotal records
etc.
B. Self Analysis

C. Guidance & Counseling

Link for individual inventory Form

https://gyansanchay.csjmu.ac.in/guidance-and-
counseling-2/
 Nature
 Systematic procedure
 Collection of data
 interprets data
 identify the characteristics, potential and limitations of
every client/student
 Proper diagnosis
 Predicting progress
 Accurate placement
 Follow up and evaluation
Individual Inventory Service: The purpose of know
thyself can be fulfilled by self inventory service which
helps students to develop awareness and self confidence
within them.
 Limitation of Individual Inventory Service:

 Over Estimation
 Under Estimation
 Subjective Information
(i) General data:
Pupil’s name, his father’s name, age, date of birth, place of birth,
permanent address, present address, name of the class in which he reads,
(ii) Family data:
Home and school environment, number of the family members, number
of the brothers and sisters, relation with family members, parental
educational status, parental occupational status, socio-economic-status of
the family, home situation (Rural/Urban) and health status of family
members.
(iii) Physical data:
Pupil’s height, weight, body structure, complexion, eye sight, hearing
condition, heart and lung condition, chronic disease, health status of the
student etc.
(iv) Academic data:
Present achievement records, past achievement records, progress of
studies in different subjects, marks or grades obtained the position of
student in the class-room so far his academic achievement is
concerned.
(v) Social data:
Manners of the student, his customs, values, social skills,
participation in various social institutions, co-operation, fellow
feeling, dealings with other members of society etc.

(vi) Data about co-curricular activities:

Interest in games, sports, interest in participating different
competitions such as drama competition, music competition, debate
competition, essay competition, school exhibition, group discussion
and spiritual discussion etc.
(vii) Psychological data:
Mental ability, emotional maturity, power of reasoning and
thinking, aptitudes, interests, attitudes, vocational interest,
self-concepts and other personality traits etc.

(viii) Data regarding entertainment:

Leisure time activities, sources and means of refreshment,
other liking hobbies and other engagements.
Different tools and techniques