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Table-8: Summary of Kruskal Wallis H Test for Mean Rank Readiness
Scores of rural, urban and semi urban participants towards Blended
Learning Approach

Ranks
Locale N Mean Rank Sig. Remark
Readiness Rural 224 248.66 0.765 Not
Scores towards Significant
blended learning Urban 213 240.36
approach Semi urban 53 252.82
Total 490

It is evident from the above columnar that have similar readiness towards using a
both the three groups can be considered blended learning approach for teachers’
uniform because of excess similarity in preparation.
the distribution of dependent variable
in both the three groups. Therefore, it Readiness of Teacher Educators,
can be undoubtedly said that p- value Research Scholars and Pupil Teachers
obtained from the Kruskal Wallis H Test towards using blended learning
is reliable, further it is evident from approach for teachers’ preparation
the table that the test statistics of the The fourth objective of the present
readiness scores of rural, urban and research was to compare readiness of
semi urban participants is K= 0.536 Teacher Educators, Research Scholars
whose probability of significance is and Pupil Teachers towards using
0.765 which is more than 0.05, hence not a blended learning approach. For
significant at 0.05 level of significance, this, 490 participants (106 Teacher
therefore the null hypothesis “There is Educators, 105 Research Scholars and
no significant difference in mean rank 279 Pupil Teachers) associated with
of readiness scores of rural, urban teacher education were selected using
and semi urban participants” is not convenient sampling techniques. Since,
rejected, It is clear from the above in this objective we were comparing
figure that the mean rank of readiness three groups so it was suggested to
scores of rural participants is 248.66 use ANOVA for the analysis of data.
which is similar to that of urban and But before using ANOVA, the first
semi urban participants whose mean assumption of normality of scores of
rank of readiness scores is 240.36 and dependent variables for each level of
252.82. Hence, it can be said that rural, independent variable was tested.
urban and semi urban participants

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Volume 3, Issue 2, July 2021