CUMULATIVE RECORD

Cumulative record

◽️A Cumulative Record card is that which contains the result of different assessment and judgements Hold from time to time during of a student or during the course of pupil.

◽️it seeks to give as comprehensive picture as possible of the personality of a child.

◽️Basically a cumulative record is a document in which it is recorded cumulatively useful and reliable information about a particular pupil or student at one place.

◽️Hence presenting a complete and growing picture of the individual concerned for the purpose of helping him during his long stay at school.

◽️it is a record of information related to the assessment of an individual learner. from time to time.

◽️The cumulative record is collected on the card as a summary, so its can be used when the learner has to solve an academic or professional problem requires Consultation

◽️To Record cumulative; use of mandatory information for instructing the learners.

◽️A method of doing and recording;defined as a

cumulative record. The card supplies information at the following points:

A)Personal

1) Name, 2)Class,3) Date of Birth, (4) place if birth, (5) Gender, (6) color, and (7) Residence.

(B) Home

Guardian's Name, Guardians occupation, Guardian (alive or dead), Economic status,

Number of siblings, big or small and spoken at home language.

C)Test scores

General intelligence, Achievement, other test scores, and personality a quality.

(D) School attendance:

attendance, absence days each year and days attended by the School along with the date.

E) Health

Record of physical disabilities, Vaccine (record) Record of diseases.

F)miscellaneous

Vocational planning

Extra curricular activities

 employment during study

 counselors remarks

Definitions

According to Bonneyand Hampleman.

Cumulative records consist of all data about an individual pupil which a school considers important enough to collect and record, usually in some organized way, for safe keeping from year to year.

According to Allen: "The cumulative record is defined as the record of information related to the evaluation of the individual pupil, which is usually plan on a Cand placed in one place.

Awding to myor thomas; this is information about the disciple collected over a long period of time.

Importance of cumulative record.

= Importance in direction

No Two people at the same- They differ from each other by attitudes, aptitudes and abilities.

 The cumulative records reveal such individual variations and show the amount and nature of professional Support required for the development of learners at various level

= importance in teaching

# A learners personal cumulative record shows it if this achievements are in proportion to this mental abilities. 

# The cumulative record of various learners helps the teacher in classifying the learners according to their academic interests and mental abilities.

#The cumulative record of different learners in a class helps the new Teacher to understand the needs of learners.

#They are remedial tools to analyze a behavior problem or an educational problems.

 #cumulative records tell the teacher about the leaner, which learner needs personal attention.

#The Cumulative record helps teachers to write personal reports it learners and helps the Principal to write character certificates more Objectively.

# Teachers can mark children with special needs and adjust the teaching accordingly

#. Cumulative records are very useful for teachers in preparing case studies. Because

Stored materials have a lot of similarity.

=importance for administrators.

Records kept for a long period tell the story of growth and distortion of the customer. Teachers and counselors are required to keep cumulative records for the reasons tha a physician keeps cumulative records.

Objectives of cumulative record.

*Helping Students to know individual differences,interest, aptitude, attitude.

*To get information about the level and ability of the students.

*helping students to know progress / downgrade.

*To assess the behavior of students in different situations.

* To provide parents with accurate information about their child.

*Helping the teachers regarding the achievement level so that they can also scour themselves.

*Helping students in regarding Providing proper Counseling and guidance.

*To guide in employment Selection.

Advantages

 🔘The cumulative record is useful to the guidance worker and consider as it provides the student with a comprehensive, objective- picture including their strengths and weakness,

🔘cumulative records guidance is useful for the counselor to help the pupil in educational achievement, professional achivement and personal progress.

🔘 The cumulative record is useful for the Hm/ Principal to ascertain the performance of the student in various Subject and their limitations.

The cumulative record is useful for the parents to grant special privileges to all the deficiencies, in the case of their child.

🔘Cumulative records are useful for teachers to know the Students and its progress and weakness at a glance.

Disadvantages

🔘The entire data is of little use if they are not collected properly, objectively and accurately.

🔘 The purpose of cumulative record is not Served if it is not maintained secretly and confidently 

🔘The cumulative record needs much money to Come to light which is not possible in the part of school to spend on this head.

🔘 The maintanence of cumulative record is a hard some job like clerical work in the part of teachers

🔘 it is a lengthy process which needs much-time to be worked out.

🔘 The cumulative record does not provide on opportunity to overlap the date collected by various teachers about the students.

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