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Figure 3 (a): Box plot displaying the ELr scores of Faculty members with
respect to their teaching experience; (b) Dimension wise readiness mean
scores of faculty members with respect to their teaching experience

Discipline and ELr dimensions it is also clear that there are no obvious
outliers in any of the samples. The
The sample for the study constituted
of 55 percent faculty members from result of one way ANOVA (F (2, 418) =
Science & Technology (M = 230.28, SD 1.969, p = .141) indicated that there was
= 24.92), 37 percent of faculty members no significant influence of Discipline on
from Social Sciences (M = 225.10, SD = ELr scores. Al Gamdi & Samarji, 2016
25.94) and 8 percent of faculty members reported that there were not significant
from Arts & Humanities (M = 227.29, differences even in the subscale scores
SD = 25.68) discipline. Thus, the mean among the faculty members belonging
score of ELr of Science & Technology to various disciplines. While, Alsaghier
faculty members is higher than the & Nguyen, 2012 reported that the
overall mean score of ELr (M = 228.11). discipline to which the faculty members
Further, figure 4 (a) and (b) respectively belonged to had a strong influence on
represent the Discipline wise score their rating towards or against online
of ELr of faculty members and the teaching. From figure 4 (b), it is clear
discipline wise mean scores by them on that the mean score of TR of faculty
dimensions of ELr. The maximum score members of all the three disciplines is
of ELr of faculty members belonging to greater than their mean scores on other
Arts & Humanities discipline is less than readiness dimensions i.e., PR, RR and
the maximum score of ELr of faculty A. The faculty members of all the three
members belonging to Social Sciences disciplines have scored the least mean
and Science & Technology discipline score in PR followed by their readiness
(vide figure 4(a)). The ELr scores of score on A. Thus, the mean score of
faculty members belonging to Social readiness of faculty members of all the
Sciences and Science & Technology three disciplines is higher in their TR
disciplines are more symmetrically followed by RR, A and PR. Thus, it can be
distributed than the ELr scores of Arts concluded that discipline does not have
& Humanities faculty members. Further, any influence on ELr scores of faculty

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