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Accreditation Perceptions And Involvement In Saudi Arabian Schools Of Nursing, Amal Abdul Aziz Alaskar

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“Accreditation is a voluntary program in which trained external peer reviewers evaluate an academic institution and compares it with pre-established performance standards” (Alkhenizan & Shaw, 2012, p. 407). Those standards need to be applied by the faculty and administrators working at institutions of higher education. To understand, evaluate, and improve the quality of higher education, it is crucial to explore and examine how those implementing accreditation perceive the process of accreditation and whether it has any association with their motivation and involvement.

This quantitative descriptive correlational study used a survey method to examine whether there is a relationship between perceptions …