اسلام و پژوهش‌های تربیتی

This research was conducted with the aim of predicting the moral growth and spiritual growth of the introductory level students of the Qom Seminary, based on the hidden curriculum. The research method is descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of students at the introductory level of the Qom Seminary equals to fifteen thousand people, and using the Krejcie and Morgan table, the number of samples are estimated to be 375 people. The research tools include Ma’navizadeh’s Moral Development Questionnaires (2012), Taqizadeh's Spiritual Development (2011) and Sheikhi's Hidden Curriculum (2009). This research uses Pearson's correlation coefficient and regression analysis to analyze the data. According to the findings of this research, the components of the hidden curriculum, including the social atmosphere and human interactions, physical structure and organizational structure, affect the criterion variables, i.e. moral growth and spiritual growth, and have predictive power. The standardized beta coefficient are 0.441 and 0.521 for these two variables respectively. Based on the findings of this research and according to the average amount of students’ moral and spiritual growth, we suggested that the educational policy makers of the Qom Seminary should take advantage of the components of hidden curriculum to increase the students’ advancement in their moral course and spiritual behavior