The psychological evaluation of school complaints and the use of psychological tests are one of the roles of the school psychologist. Current analysis presents the results of a research retrieved from psycho-educational evaluation reports prepared by psychologists. The latter tried to understand the manner psychological evaluation was being undertaken by psychologists in the state of Paraná, Brazil. Thirty-six reports directing students of the 5th - 8th series of the junior high school to the Resource Room have been examined. Although intelligence tests were employed by 93.44% of psychologists, many made use of observations and analyzed school activities to assess school complaints, without limiting themselves to psychometrics. Taking Historical and Cultural Psychology as a foregrounding point of view, it may be said that evaluation may take into account the students' potentialities and should contribute towards their appropriation of the scientific knowledge fabricated and accumulated by all.
psychological evaluation; teaching-learning process; Historical and Cultural Psychology