Abstract

FERNANDES, Tereza Liduina Grigório  and  VIANA, Tania Vicente. Alunos com Necessidades Educacionais Especiais (NEEs): avaliar para o desenvolvimento pleno de suas capacidades. Est. Aval. Educ. [online]. 2009, vol.20, n.43, pp.305-318. ISSN 0103-6831.

One of the biggest challenges school faces is identifying and developing the capacities of students with special educational needs. The diagnostic evaluation in education allows one to know these students better, identifying their special educational needs, motivations, habits, knowledge, self-esteem levels, facilities or difficulties in certain areas. The learning evaluation can also actively contribute in that sense to motivate students to learn and to develop themselves. The traditional way of evaluating does not take into account their limits and potentialities, contributing to fail them when they do not learn, which is unjustified, incoherent and unconstitutional. Although the diagnostic evaluation has presented significant evolution in Special Education, progressing from the clinical vision to the conception of education and social inclusion, some difficulties remain in building specific tools for a learning evaluation capable to contribute to the development and autonomy of those students. This paper, through a revision of specialized literature, intends to reflect about the contribution of the evaluation in education, in the areas of diagnosis and learning, to the full development of those students.

Keywords : Special Education; Learning Evaluation; Failing; Social Inclusion.

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