ANALYSIS OF THE EVALUATION PROCESS IMPLEMENTED BY TEACHERS OF STUDENTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
Keywords: School evaluation, autism, elementary school final years
Academic assessment, considered a necessary and permanent didactic task of teaching, implies verifying the student's comprehension level of the contents exposed in the school context. It is an essential practice for the education of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), who sometimes require significant curricular adaptations. The result of a national literature review reveals the lack of research that deals with the forms of evaluation used specifically with this public. The general objective of the present study, characterized as an action research, was to identify the criteria and strategies that should compose an instrument to evaluate the learning of students with ASD, regularly enrolled in the final years of Elementary School, in state schools in Rio Grande do Norte (RN). Specifically, the research aimed to: (1) Analyze the evaluation policy in the legal documents of the State of Rio Grande do Norte; and (2) Identify the types of evaluation resources used by 12 teachers of students with ASD, who worked in state schools in RN. The preliminary results of the documentary research revealed the inclusion of the theme of evaluation in 11 legal documents used in the State of Rio Grande do Norte. The interviews conducted with the teachers indicated discrepancies in the forms of evaluation conceptions and strategies.