Educational Authoritarianism and Academic Achievement: A Comparative Field Study

This   study aims at recognizing the differences between the study sample and the relations of these differences with all kinds of educational authoritarianism: familial, scholastic and neighborhood. It seeks also to recognize the effects these things on the educational achievement. The study adopts the comparative method, as well as the method of social survey with a sample of 200 male and female students, using the random class sample in the light of the standards of educational authoritarianism and the academic achievement prepared for the study. and Case Study Method. The study found differences with statistical significances between the economic stages with its various levels:  “low, middle, and high” and educational authoritarianism. The differences went to the low economic level.  It also found a strong positive correlation between the variables of the educational authoritarianism with all its types: the familial, the school, and the community on the male and female individuals of the sample. The findings of the study also reveals a strong inverse association between the overall degree of family, academic and community authoritarianism, and the significance of class achievement of the individuals of the sample. The results of the study referred to the existence of two variables with predictive capabilities of the educational achievement of the individuals of the sample, they are the familial authoritarianism, the authoritarianism of the community, and the exclusion of the variable of school authoritarianism for its weak effect on the subordinate variable.