MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641126870 A) filed by Ch. Baby Prasuna on October 24, 2026, for A Psychometric Instrument For Assessing Multimedia Usage Among 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 psychometric instrument for measuring multimedia usage among students of Classes VIII and IX. The instrument comprises thirty-five items on a five-point Likert scale, organised under four dimensions: type of media, type of device, purpose of usage and extent of usage. From a preliminary draft of eighty items trial-administered to three hundred participants, items with a correlation coefficient exceeding 0.195 were retained. Split-half reliability is 0.82 and intrinsic validity is 0.75. The instrument yields dimension-wise and total scores. Four figures illustrate the dimensional structure, construction method, response format and scoring process.
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