Quality indicators for SNE - Slovenia

It is in an individual programme where the main objectives and outlines of the education and training of children with special needs is incorporated and where parents take part in the process of elaborating the programme. The evaluation of the programme is provided at least once a year or in circumstances of important changes within the child’s development, especially changes that affect the implementation of the education and training programme. 

In terms of their other individual skills and liabilities, children may be guided and placed into various programmes of education and training. Educators in both pre-primary and primary schools provide proper adjustments in their endeavour to attain the required standards of knowledge. Instructions for working in a specific programme of education and training provide the necessary support to the educators in implementing the curriculum. 

Once a year, children that are part of the individualised education programme with extra professional support take the national examination on general knowledge. The examination material is adapted to the type and level of deficiency, handicap or disorder of the individual child.  Primarily, the purpose of the general knowledge examination is to obtain information. The other purpose of the examination is to supply children and their parents with information about the outcomes and strengths or weaknesses of children. The information is also important for teachers and school directors as they can then analyse the outcomes and reasons behind them and then apply the results to improve didactic equipment and ways of teaching and evaluation. In this way, they are able to adapt the instruction and school. There are also examinations at national level. The results of the ‘national knowledge examinations’ provide information about the level of attainment of curriculum standards and thereby enable the evaluation of outcomes at the national level.

Educators apply different methods in their work and often appreciate and use the tailored information technologies.

The National examination centre and the Evaluation board at the national level are the chief evaluation institutions within the state that are responsible for the evaluation of knowledge outcomes. The board evaluates all innovative education and pilot projects that receive consensus from the most important scientific authorities in the state. 

 In special institutions for children with special needs periodic supervision is carried out, primarily concerning the more challenging population of children with special needs.