Entrepreneurship Training in Special Needs Education: Assessment of Students with Disabilities
Keywords:
Entrepreneurship Training, Special Needs Education, Students with Disabilities, Inclusive Education, Disability EmpowermentAbstract
It is common knowledge that if individuals with special needs were given the opportunity, they can lead meaningful, productive lives, and contribute to the social and economic well-being of their family and community. It is equally strongly believed that education and lifelong learning opportunity can and must erase these gaps in economic and social development that effectively marginalise students with disabilities. This paper examines entrepreneurship, special needs education and authentic assessment of students with disabilities. Three major issues discussed here include: The need to obtain a conceptual framework of assessment as it bears in the programme arrangement for relevant entrepreneurship for students with disabilities: the need to reposition special needs education following the current imbalances and maladjustments as they obtain from inappropriate assessment practices: and the need to re-examine assessment purposes as they take effect on providing appropriate entrepreneurship education for students with disabilities. Quality assessment programmes remain crucial towards relevant education for the empowerment of students with special needs.
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