The Role of Teacher's Authority in Students' Learning

The current article attempts to examine the relation between authority styles of teachers and learning of students of secondary school of district 9 Tehran. The researcher has collected theoretical information by library method and then arranged the field information from teachers of secondary schools of district 9 of Tehran by questionnaire; the sample size has been selected randomly with number of 200 persons. For collecting information and data for analysis, one has used researcher-made questionnaire of authority and learning. In this stage one has consulted with advisor professors and consultants and experts to design questionnaire and thus it has been ensured that the questionnaires are characterized with desired properties. In this research one has used the Cronbach's alpha method for determining the reliability of the test. the results of Pearson test has shown that considering the significance level, all sources of authority of teachers has significant relation with students learning. It implies that as the teachers' authority level increases, the students learning ranks in higher level in the studied society.