Investigation and Comparison of the Existing and Desirable Conditions for the Characteristics of the Teachers of “Religion and life” Course in the Eyes of Students

The present study aims at investigating the students’ expectations of the desired characteristics for the teachers of “Religion and Life” course, and comparing it with the existing condition. As to the goal, this study is practical and as to the method, it is a survey study. The statistical population is composed of all male and female students in science and humanities disciplines in Sarakhs city. We used quota sampling to select a sample of 280 subjects and used a researcher-made questionnaire to gather data. To verify the reliability of the questionnaire, we used Cronbach’s alpha whose results were as follows: 0.79 for the category of individual morality, 0.89 for personal and mental category, 0.90 for interpersonal morality, 0.78 for outward characteristics, and 0.89 for individual qualifications.  To analyze the data, we used descriptive statistics method (median and standard deviation) as well as repeated measurement test and T-test.
The results of the repeated measurement test showed that in the students’ eyes, there is a quite meaningful difference between the desired and existing characteristics of the teachers of “Religion and Life” as far as the priority is concerned (p