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Academic Misconduct: Its Importance To Persistence And Graduation, Tabor Lancaster Mullen May 2022

Academic Misconduct: Its Importance To Persistence And Graduation, Tabor Lancaster Mullen

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The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of an act of academic misconduct on transfer student GPA, retention and completion. Three groups were compared from data compiled from 2009-2015: freshman and new transfer, transfer and native student in honor code violations, and transfer student between violators and non-violators. The outcome determined if not committing an act of academic misconduct benefits students’ immediate academic success as seen through a maintained or higher GPA, retention from one semester to another, as well as completion.

The study utilized the quantitative, quasi-experimental study design. The research was conducted using descriptive statistics …