Elements of Academic Integrity in a Cross-Cultural Middle Eastern Educational System: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan Case Study

Autor/in	Farahat, Ashraf
Titel	Elements of Academic Integrity in a Cross-Cultural Middle Eastern Educational System: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan Case Study
Quelle	In: International Journal for Educational Integrity, 18 (2022), Artikel 9 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Farahat, Ashraf)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1833-2595
DOI	10.1007/s40979-021-00095-5
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Integrity; Ethics; Cheating; Personality Traits; Cultural Influences; Educational Environment; Moral Values; Discipline Policy; Student Attitudes; Teacher Role; Administrator Role; Saudi Arabia; Egypt; Jordan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Integrität; Ethik; Prellen; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Disziplinarmaßnahme; Schülerverhalten; Lehrerrolle; Saudi-Arabien; Ägypten
Abstract	Introduction: Academic integrity is the expectation that members of the academic community, including researchers, teachers, and students, to act with accuracy, honesty, fairness, responsibility, and respect. Academic integrity is an issue of critical importance to academic institutions and has been gaining increasing interest among scholars in the last few years. While contravening academic integrity is known as academic misconduct, cheating is one type of academic misconduct and is generally defined as "any action that dishonestly or unfairly violates rules of research or education. Case study: The case study presented in this paper describes the elements of academic misconduct in three Middle Eastern countries (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan). Four categories of factors were analyzed, namely personal, cultural traits, contextual, and institutional. Moreover, a comparison of factors of misconduct is conducted in the three countries in order to examine how different learning environments and cultures can affect academic cheating. The study also investigates the role of teachers and administration system in enforcing integrity policy in educational institutes. Discussion and evaluation: An evaluation of the main causes of cheating and plagiarism among students in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan is conducted by analyzing students' response to a 20 questions survey. The nonparametric Dunn's statistical analysis is performed to compare the variance and frequency of factors that may affect academic integrity. The significant results are reported in terms of the Krushal F statistic and p-value < 0.05. The evaluation was a useful process that demonstrated the main factors affecting academic integrity in the three countries. Conclusion: Survey results show that the role of individual social-demographic and culture factors are significant for predicting misconduct in Saudi Arabia and Egypt but not in Jordan. Most students blamed their misconduct on laziness and willingness to achieve higher education performance. Students are more likely to cheat and plagiarize because they lack the ability or information to tackle assignments. Results illustrate that the cultural impact can be a significant factor in academic misconduct. Integrity policies and the level, at which they have been applied, have a large impact on student attitudes towards cheating and their academic misconduct. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01