Psicometria e educação: a obra de Isaias Alves

• Ano de defesa: 2006
• Autor(a) principal: Walger, Américo Agostinho Rodriges
• Orientador(a): Sass, Odair
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Educação: História, Política, Sociedade
• Departamento: Educação
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Testes psicológicos; Isaías Alves; Alves, Isaias > 1898-1968 > Critica e interpretacao; Psicometria; Escola nova > Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Psychometrics; New school; Isaías Alves
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO::FUNDAMENTOS DA EDUCACAO::HISTORIA DA EDUCACAO
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/10552

The theoretic study Psychometrics and Education: the works of Isaías Alves, which is tied to the Americanism and Education project, undertakes an exam of the roots of psychometrics, and it also studies the initial development of psychometrics in Brazil, its relation with education and its revealing in the works of Isaías Alves. Many others have linked the beginning of psychometrics to the advent of the Escola Nova (New School). The defended thesis retakes the discussion about the origin and diffusion of psychometrics in Brazil acknowledging it as non-dependent, in the works of the Isaías Alves, to the movement of the New School. A revision of the previous bibliography was achieved concerning the examination of the thinking of Isaías Alves, in which some of the tittles pertinent to the theme were pointed out. The principal works of Isaías Alves, as well as other works and articles concerning psychometrics were consulted. One can see that the history of psychometrics, in the world, seems to amalgamate with the history of experimental psychology. Psychometrics, in Brazil, has its origins in medicine, in formal jobs, and in the proposals of the educational reorganizations. As in the rest of the world, the Brazilian psychometrics expanded with intelligence tests. It follows that Isaías Alves expresses the philosophy of Americanism, in Brazil, in a different way and independent of the movement of the New School for its ideas of discipline, fascist nationalism, reorganization of the classes tied to traditional education, professional, civic and moral. For this reason, it is judged that the psychometrics of Isaías Alves is not bound to the New School