Postcorona Pandemic Educational Science Research in Saudi Universities

Table 6

Study participants’ responses to the theme “reality of the scientific research in the area of educational sciences during corona pandemic in Saudi universities in descending order as per the approval averages.”

No.	Item	Arithmetic mean	Standards deviation	Category	Rank
4	Conditions for promotion include special attention to scientific research	4.24	0.698	Strongly agree	1
14	The university has a system for scientific research	4.14	0.962	Agree	2
9	I have scientific research skills	3.92	0.899	Agree	3
5	The job performance evaluation of faculty members includes items for scientific research	3.72	0.930	Agree	4
11	The faculty members observe academic integrity in preparing and improving their research	3.68	0.938	Agree	5
20	The university contributes to facilitating the researcher’s mission if their research requires field visits to institutions related to the research	3.51	0.955	Agree	6
6	The Center for Research and Studies contributes to supporting scientific research at the university	3.19	1.135	Neutral	7
3	The Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and Research Affairs promotes initiatives to encourage scientific research	3.07	1.338	Neutral	8
23	The flexibility of the procedures for researchers to obtain a full-time scientific leave when conditions are met	2.80	1.208	Neutral	9
1	The university has a stated policy and strategy for sponsoring scientific research	2.54	1.549	Disagree	10
21	Scientific research focuses on societal priorities and problems	2.51	1.371	Disagree	11
7	The university has a specific and stated policy for publishing the results of scientific research	2.51	1.534	Disagree	12
2	The faculty members are familiar with the scientific research strategy and its priorities in the Kingdom	2.46	1.471	Disagree	13
8	The university provides sufficient technical support to carry out scientific research	2.40	1.523	Disagree	14
17	The university provides a database that facilitates scientific research	2.34	1.541	Disagree	15
10	The university supports faculty members in finding peer-reviewed scientific journals to publish their research	2.29	1.399	Disagree	16
13	The university adopts research initiatives and projects that have a financial or investment return	2.25	1.312	Disagree	17
15	There is a system and mechanism followed by the different colleges and departments that prioritizes conducting scientific research	2.25	1.416	Disagree	18
22	The university provides faculty members with appropriate financial support for scientific research	2.24	1.337	Disagree	19
18	The university provides subscriptions to scientific journal databases that the researcher needs to conduct scientific research	2.22	1.49	Disagree	20
16	The university provides the infrastructure that helps in conducting scientific research	2.18	1.368	Disagree	21
12	The budget allocated by the university for scientific research is adequate	2.06	1.289	Disagree	22
19	The college has adequate infrastructure for conducting scientific research	2.04	1.421	Disagree	23
General average		2.81	0.924	Neutral