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do not significantly deviate from non- the groups of IV. In the present study
parametric variance” is not rejected. sample size is more than 4 in each
Therefore, it can be concluded that group of IV, Hence the fifth assumption
the assumption of equality of variance of Mann Whitney U test is also fulfilled.
(Non-Parametric) is satisfied. After testing and fulfilling all the
statistical assumptions, the data related
Assumption#5- Assumption of to the second objective was analysed
Sample size with the help of Mann Whitney U
test. The results are presented below
This assumption holds that sample size
should not be less than four in both through the figure-2.
Figure-1: Readiness Scores of Male and Female Participants
towards using blended learning approach for teachers’ preparation

It is evident from the above columnar towards blended learning approach
that both the groups (Male and Female) is U= 32250.00 whose probability of
can be considered uniform because of significance is 0.145 which is more
excess similarity in the distribution of than 0.05, hence not significant at 0.05
dependent variables in both the groups. level of significance, therefore the null
Therefore, it can be undoubtedly said hypothesis “there is no significant
that p- value obtained from the Mann difference in mean rank of readiness
Whitney U Test is reliable, further it scores of male and female participants
is evident from the above table that towards blended learning approach” is
the test statistics of the readiness not rejected.
scores of male and female participants

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