Teacher perceived workload did not differ significantly across conditions on any NASA-TLX subscale, though the experimental condition was descriptively lower on most subscales¶

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q3 i? Robust one-way ANOVAs on the six raw NASA-TLX subscales revealed no statistically significant difference across conditions after p-value adjustment. → Luiz Rodrigues 2026

Evidence¶

Luiz Rodrigues 2026¶

Luiz Rodrigues, Guilherme Guerino, Thomaz Edson Silva, Luana Bianchini, Mariana Alves, Geiser Chalco Challco, Thales Vieira, Marcelo Marinho, Valmir Macario, Diego Dermeval, Ig Ibert Bittencourt, Seiji Isotani. (2026). AIED unplugged, teacher workload, and numeracy learning: a clustered quasi-experimental mixed-methods study. Smart Learning Environments. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40561-026-00465-x

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Teachers' perceived workload was measured with the raw NASA-TLX (0–10 per subscale) at the end of the intervention; the article reports that "Table 5 reveals no statistically significant difference based on adjusted p-values" across the three conditions.

"Descriptively, the Experimental condition yielded the lowest ratings for Mental Demand, Physical Demand, Performance, and Effort. Its Temporal Demand rating was comparable to that of the Training condition, and both were lower than the Control one. Only for Frustration did the Experimental condition rate higher than the Training one, although still lower than the Control one. However, Table 5 reveals no statistically significant difference based on adjusted p-values."

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