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Therefore, it can be concluded that the variable that all the selections of male
assumption of normality of Readiness and female group participants do not
Scores of male and female participants affect each other i.e., independent of
towards blended learning approach each other.
is not satisfied or it can be concluded
that readiness scores towards blended Assumption#2- The scores of
learning approach were not normally dependent variables must be at least
distributed. Therefore, the data was on ordinal scale
analysed with the help of Mann Whitney According to this assumption the
U test (Alternative Non-Parametric dependent variable should be
Statistics). Further before applying Mann measured at least on an ordinal scale.
Whitney U test, all the assumptions On the basis of observation of the
of this test were also tested. The scores of dependent variables, it is clear
assumptions related to Mann Whitney that these scores are on interval scale.
U test with the results of test are given
below:
Assumption#3- Uniformity of
distribution of dependent variable at
Assumption#1- Independence of the both levels of independent variable
Groups
This assumption holds whether the
According to this assumption, there distribution of scores of dependent
should be independence of observation variables for both the groups of
in collecting samples i.e., there should independent variables (Male and
not be any relationship between Female) has the same shape or a
the observation in each group of different shape. For testing it, graphical
the independent variable. It is clear representations (Fig-1) were used.
from the observation of independent
Figure-1: Readiness Scores of Male and Female Participants
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Volume 3, Issue 2, July 2021