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Table-5: Summary of Mann Whitney U – Test for Mean rank Readiness Scores
of Male and Female participants towards Blended Learning Approach

Ranks
Gender N Mean Sum of Sig. Remark
Rank Ranks
Between Groups Male 236 235.85 55660.00 0.145 Not
Significant
Within Groups Female 254 254.47 64635.00
Total Total 490

Further, it is clear from the mean ranks The third objective of the present
shown in the above figure that mean rank research was to compare readiness of
of readiness scores of male participants rural, urban and semi urban participants.
towards blended learning approach For this researcher selected 490
is 235.85 which is similar to that of participants (224 Rural, 213 Urban and
female participants where mean rank 53 Semi Urban) associated with teacher
of readiness scores is 254.47. Hence, education using convenient sampling
it can be said that male participants techniques Since, in this objective three
have similar readiness towards using a groups of participants are compared
blended learning approach than that of therefore ANOVA was used for analysis
female participants. of data. But before using ANOVA, the
first assumption of normality of the
Readiness of Rural, Urban and Semi score of dependent variables for each
Urban participants towards using level of IV was tested using Kolmogorov-
blended learning approach for Smirnov test. Table 6 shows statistical
Teachers’ Preparation tests of Normality at different levels.
Table-6: Tests of Normality for Readiness Scores of rural, urban and semi
urban participants towards blended learning approach

Criterion Variable: Readiness towards blended learning approach

Locale Kolmogorov-Smirnov a Shapiro-Wilk
Statistic df Sig. Statistic df Sig.

Readiness Scores Rural .127 224 .000 .929 224 .000
towards Blended Urban .123 213 .000 .926 213 .000
Learning Approach
Semi .125 53 .037 .920 53 .002
urban
a. Lilliefors Significance Correction

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