صور الفساد الأكاديمي في الجامعات السعودية : آراء عينة من طلبة الدراسات العليا

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The current study aims to explore the most common forms of academic corruption of the two parties of the educational process, students and faculty members, through discussing the views of 2383 graduate students studying master or doctorate degrees at the Saudi public universities.

The study uses a special instrument for academic corruption forms.

Data analysis shows that academic corruption forms among graduate students at Saudi universities are moderately widespread with an average 2.83.

The most common corruption forms among students were in courses requirements with an average 3.36.

Four forms of this axis came in the first four ranks out of the five most common forms of corruption and these four forms are (in order) : students’ plagiarization of researches from the internet, students’ plagiarization of phrases and statements from other researches, students’ including a list of unread references into their assignments just to increase the number of references, students’ citing unread references that only came in the context of other references.

The fifth form of graduate students’ corruption is students’ seeking help from centers to make their dissertations and research projects, and this form belongs to the axis of corruption forms in dissertations and graduation projects which came second with an average 2.74.

It was also clear that corruption forms of faculty members-according to students- were moderately widespread with an average 2.82.

Coming at the top of these forms is faculty members’ evaluation of their students followed by the axis of corruption forms in teaching activity, and they are both moderately widespread with an average 3.64 and 3.36 respectively.

The rest of faculty members’ corruption forms axes were also moderately widespread.

Gender, the program in which the student is registered and student’s specialization were all variables affecting how prevalent academic corruption forms are for students and faculty members at Saudi universities.