Procedimentos avaliativos no processo de escolarização de uma estudante com deficiência intelectual

Abstract

This study aimed to understand school assessment procedures used by a teacher in the schooling process of an elementary level student with intellectual disability. The research took place from August to December 2015, in a public school of Uberlândia city, state of Minas Gerais. To achieve research aims, methodological option to develop it followed principles of qualitative approach in form of a case study. In the school everydayness, a case study involves exchanging relationships between people involved, principles and values appearing in actions and interactions, in routines and social relationships. The research methodology followed two investigative foci: interview with the teacher and participant observation in classroom, besides field notes taking to understand teacher’s assessment practices. Justification for choosing these research strategies is that interviewing the teacher and observing classes offer a set of important information on the phenomenon studied. Results point out the need to reflect on the evaluation procedures and process of schooling of students with intellectual disabilities. Assessment procedures employed by the teacher were homework, individual assignments, interdisciplinary work and bimonthly tests. Besides, it has become evident that the teacher’s understanding of intellectual disability does not consider the student potential to learn. It is proved when she makes pedagogical activities adapted to the student to make its performing easy to her but without dealing with more complex school contents. Thus, the formative assessment appears as perspective necessary to the educational practice of the teacher in order to accompany students with intellectual disability learning and other students as well in the schooling process, so that to create a setting for interaction, dialogue and knowledge exchange. We highlight that teacher’s continuing education with studies for formative assessment is important to change conceptions of teaching work and provide circumstances for thinking of educational practice, because formative assessment is procedural, continuous and dialogic; which means possible of being conceived in an assessment perspective whose experience can be marked by the logic of inclusion.