Measuring Student's Values in Payame Noor University of Tehran Province

The main purpose of this study is to survey the values’ system among students through measuring student's values in each levels, ranking values system & determining a relation between individual characteristic & students’ values. Statistical population of this research was 6000 students in Human Science & Basic Science Complexes in Tehran. A total of 350 of individuals were randomly selected through cluster sampling. Alport, Vernon and Lindzi's values system questionnaires were used to collect data. The reliabilities of measuring tool for each of the 6 values were: theoretical 0.86, economical 0.77, artistic 0.83 social 0.81, religious 0.82 and political 0.79 respectively. The result showed that all these values had high ranks.. Also among the 6 values theoretical and religious value got the highest & lowest and Political, economics, artistic & social values stand on third to sixth places. Also in this study, the relation between individual characteristic & student's values were considered and the result shows that there is a relation between economics and artistic values and gender,, marital status and economics value, age and artistic value, educational level with economics value, and type of university with artistic value. There was no meaningful relation between other individual characteristic and the mentioned values