Discussing the misnomer: Exploring multidimensional perception to academic dishonesty in Nigeria. Do school attributes really matter?

Table 3 Independent t-test analysis of student’s perception of academic dishonesty by differences in school size

Measures of dishonesty	Size	N	Mean	SD	έ	Df	t-cal	95%CI		p-va
Plagiarism	Large	6376	10.28	2.03	0.02
Plagiarism	Small	4261	10.22	2.00	0.03	10,635	1.39	− 0.022	0.13	0.162
Cheating	Large	6376	8.07	0.33	0.00
Cheating	Small	4261	8.07	0.33	0.00	10,635	− 0.28	− 0.014	0.01	0.778
Falsification	Large	6376	15.43	3.10	0.03
Falsification	Small	4261	15.37	3.21	0.04	10,635	0.95	− 0.063	0.18	0.338
Fabrication	Large	6376	11.67	3.44	0.04
Fabrication	Small	4261	11.61	3.43	0.05	10,635	0.86	− 0.07	0.19	0.389
Impersonation	Large	6376	8.65	1.12	0.01
Impersonation	Small	4261	8.68	1.18	0.01	10,635	−1.53	− 0.07	0.00	0.122

SD Standard deviation, CI Confidence interval, N Number of observations, t-critical-1.96, MD Mean difference

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