Reflexões sobre os testes psicológicos a partir da Teoria Crítica da Sociedade / Reflections about psychological tests from the Critical Theory of Society

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2000

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This work examines psychological tests, especially in their relation with education, from the Critical Theory of Society standpoint, considering their internal concepts as well as historic conditions that allowed their creation. Two analysis are fundamentals, both based on Horkheimer and Adorno: first, the historical contradictions of the western ratio movement, examined from the Dialectic of the Enlightenment; second, the employment of statistical and typological methods on research. As a result, it was concluded that the conflict between quantitative and qualitative methods is shown equivocated since they serve different purposes. Man´s "naturalization", typologization and indiferenciation in the modern world cannot be attributed to psychological tests. These ones carry within themselves the contradiction of the enlightenment, of serving the humanity and at the same time its barbarization. It is still presented in this thesis some critical authors to the tests, and as illustration, a bibliographic research about tests obtained from two educational Brazilian journals and two psychological ones. It was verified that tests are employed and criticized mainly linked to their regressive aspects without possibilities of thinking their transcendence, despite changes observed in present psychometry.

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teoria crítica adorno theodor wiesengrund 1903-1969 horkheimer max 1895-1973 academic failure critical theory psychological testing adorno theodor wiesengrund 1903-1969 escolas psicologia escolar school psychology testes psicológicos fracasso escolar schools horkheimer max 1895-1973

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