Forward-Looking Vision to Promote the Practice of Saudi University Students for Academic Integrity in The Light of The Theory of Change

Abstract

This study aimed to build a forward-looking vision to promote the practice of Saudi university students for Academic Integrity in The light of the Theory of Change using Delphi Technique as a tool for data collection. To achieve the study aims, two questionnaires were used: An open-questionnaire and a closed questionnaire, which administered to a sample of (26) educational experts chosen purposefully to elicit their views and perspectives on the forward-looking vision to promote the practice of Saudi university students for Academic Integrity in The light of the Theory of Change.

Using three rounds of Delphi Technique revealed the following results. First, there were 44 suggestions that covered six major domains relevant to promote the practice of Saudi university students for Academic Integrity, requirements: Objectives, the institutional context, curriculum and teaching methods, Support faculty members, Support students, Assessment and evaluation, based on building a forward-looking vision. Second, all suggestions in all domains scored a very high degree of importance in addition to achieving a high degree of consensus among the experts to the extent that the difference, in the degree of importance between the second round and the third round was less than (0.5). Which equals less than (16.6 %). In the light of the results, the study provided recommendations and advice for implementing the visionary proposals in Saudi universities to promote student practices of academic integrity in light of the theory of change