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Table 2 Gender difference in perceived seriousness of academic cheating behavior

From: Perceived seriousness of academic cheating behaviors among undergraduate students: an Ethiopian experience

  Gender Colleges
Items Male Female  
Mean Mean P CBE CNCS CSSH
1. Item 1 3.29 (.75) 3.71 (.52) .000    
2. Item 2 2.96 (.73) 3.59 (.59) .000    
3. Item 3 3.27 (.75) 3.61 (.53) .000    
4. Item 4 1.65 (.69) 1.75 (.69) .283    
5. Item 5 3.27 (.77) 3.56 (.63) .003    
6. Item 6 2.73 (.87) 3.49 (.68) .000    
7. Item 7 3.01 (.77) 3.16 (.92) .175    
8. Item 8 1.91 (.77) 1.84 (.77) .472    
9. Item 9 3.08 (.71) 3.57 (.64) .000    
10. Item 10 1.76 (.66) 1.70 (.76) .489    
11. Item 11 3.41 (.68) 3.52 (.76) .297    
Grand Mean 2.76 (.22) 3.04 (.21) .000 2.79 (.21) 2.94 (.27) 2.91 (.27
  1. Notes: 0 (not cheating at all) to 4 (most serious cheating); CBE (n = 97), CNCS (n = 82), and CSSH (n = 66) Standard deviations are in parenthesis. CBE College of Business and Economics, CSSH College of Social Science and Humanities, CNCS College of Natural and Computational Sciences. Items are numbered as the same as Table 1
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