The Impact of Saudi Arabia's Education Policies Under Vision 2030 on Student Performance: Saudi's Progress Benchmarked with Malaysia's Education Blueprint 2025

Abstract

This study holds great significance for students, educators, policymakers, and stakeholders in Saudi Arabia as well as globally. By exploring the impact of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 education policies on students' performance and benchmarking this progress on the impacts of Malaysia's Education Blueprint 2025, this study provides a holistic comprehension of the true efficacy of Saudi Arabia's policies in enhancing students' academic performance. The study avoids excessive data collection efforts by relying on existing articles and resources while still providing robust insights. Therefore, the desk study approach involves collecting and analyzing Malaysia's existing articles, reports, and resources related to education policies to substantiate the literature review over 8 years since 2017, when Education Blueprint 2025 was started. Moreover, incorporating the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) exam results from Saudi Arabia and Malaysia provides authenticity to measuring students' actual performance that results from implementing education policies. The majority of the compiled articles (n = 10) centered around online proctoring education policy solutions. In addition, the findings demonstrated a distinct correlation between PISA performance and school achievements, evident in both the PISA 2017 and PISA 2019 datasets. This research is expected to shed light on Saudi Arabia's educational policy outcomes, offering valuable insights to policymakers and education stakeholders. In the long run, this research aims to contribute to educational practices, enhance student performance, and support sustainable development efforts in Saudi Arabia and globally.