Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 kharazmi university

2 Kharazmi university

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of enabling school structure and academic optimism of teacher on the student’s academic achievement. To carry out this study , the descriptive ( correlation) method is used.
Teacher academic optimism and enabling school structure questionnaires by 150 teacher in district 5 tehran guidance school that were randomly chosen , were completed. The last semester’s student final grade point was selected as the base of measurement of their educational development. To examine the hypothesis and answer the study’s question, the correlation coefficient and multiple regression was used and the results confirm the hypothesis. Results showed that the academic optimism of teacher and school empowerment have a positive and significant correlation with academic achievement. Among the three dimensions of academic optimism (efficacy, academic emphasis, trust) teacher efficacy had the highest correlation with academic achievement. Academic optimism of teacher and empowerment structure are two variables which together explained 23% of the variance in academic achievement.

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