Positive Discipline, Students' Self-control, Students' Commitment, Students' Learning Motivation

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of positive discipline on the learning process
and its achieving strategies from teachers and principals’ point of view in the city of Ahwaz in
2011-2012 academic years. The method of research was descriptive-survey. The statistical
population of this study includes all Ahwaz high school teachers and principals. All of the
sample members (105 principals and 321 teachers) were selected by stratified random
sampling. In order to collect the data, a self-administrated questionnaire was used. In
descriptive statistics frequency, percentage, and mean were used and in inferential statistics
one-sample t-test, Friedman test and structural equation modeling in Amos were utilized. The
results of this study indicate that the relationship between positive discipline and each of three
presented strategies is significant. Teachers' learning motivation with 71% and students' selfcontrol with 58% had, respectively, high correlation coefficient with positive discipline from
teachers and principals’ view. The first rank in teachers and principals’ view assigned to the
students' learning motivation and their commitment.