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Abstract

This study investigated the perceptions of deaf students about the process of evaluating learning in distance education in two dimensions: the developed model and the applied instruments. The work seeks to provide opportunities to institutions that host deaf students, the possibility of reflecting on their evaluation processes responding if they are according to the specificities of these subjects. This is a qualitative, descriptive and interpretive research where we used the Narrative Interview to construct the datas, which were analyzed under the prism of the Discursive Textual Analysis (ATD). The research actors are deaf students of higher education in the Distance Education modality - EaD, several courses communicate using the Brazilian sign language. The context of the research was a semipresencial higher education polo in the city of Manaus. Sustained by the socio-anthropological vision on deafness, concepts were articulated about the identity and cultural construction of the deaf, as well as the historical course related to their education to higher education; we also characterize distance education, bringing its history and pedagogical actors; we conceptualize the evaluation of learning and its unfolding in the inclusive context. The interpretive metatext, the result of the analysis, allowed us to discuss theoretically the categories listed: confrontation of the Portuguese language - L2 and adapted evaluative instruments. We infer that the deaf person has great difficulty with the Portuguese language, which is the majority and applied in the evaluation model, since he does not possess his technical mastery, but his literacy happens in a lossy way, once the same was literate in sign language, in a late way. We verified that the deaf construct all their cognitive experience using the viso-spatial language and imaging contents. Therefore, the evaluative instruments applied must consider these specificities, requiring a rethinking of pedagogy in their practices, considering also what prescribes the current legislation.