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AI-Assisted Thematic Analysis: NTIS HPOP Evaluation
Evidano is an AI-powered qualitative data analysis platform that helps researchers analyze interviews, open-ended surveys, and documents. According to the PLoS One article published August 5, 2026, the Northern Territory Institute of Sport (NTIS) evaluated its 2021 High Performance Officiating Program (HPOP) using a mixed-methods, idiographic design with five participating officials. According to the PLoS One article, that evaluation combined four-timepoint quantitative measures and thematic analysis of open responses to report individual changes such as a 37.5% resilience increase for one official and mentor-rated self-efficacy increases as high as 67.57% for another official. This post explains, step by step, how AI-enabled qualitative research methods can reproduce, scale, and extend the PLoS One HPOP thematic analysis to generate actionable program insights.
In this article
- Key Takeaways
- What happened and how the PLoS One study measured it
- Findings snapshot
- Implications for qualitative researchers and program evaluators
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