Teacher's Control Ideology about Students and Its Relation with Their Professionalism

The present study aimed at studying the ideology of teachers about controlling students and determining their relationship with teacher's professionalism. The research approach was quantitative and a descriptive- correlation method. The statistical population of this study included all elementary teachers in Sanandaj in Iran which 280 teachers were selected by random sampling method. The research instrument consisted of two questionnaires:1) Student Control ideology (Willower, Eidell, & Hoy, 1967) and 2) Teacher's Professionalism (McMahan and Hoy, 2009). The content validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis technique, and their reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha methods that were 0.82 and 0.94, respectively. For analyzing data, a series of statistical tests such as confirmatory factor analysis, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Pearson correlation coefficient, one sample t-test and structural equation model were used. The results showed that the status of control ideology is higher than the average level and the level of professionalism is at the desired and above average level. The correlation between the variables of teachers’ professionalism and student control ideology was significant and negative (r=-0.26). The results of structural equation model showed that correlation between teachers’ control ideology variable and teachers’ professionalism was at a low level (r=0.23).