The study
The Community Learning and Service Partnership (CLASP) at Cornell University, a recipient of the Malcolm Knowles Award, wanted an outside perspective on an in-house film. The authors turned to Evidano (previously AILYZE) as a third party because they felt too close to the program to see it clearly.
The data was a film transcript carrying the voices of four groups: administrators and managers, employees and adult learners, union leaders, and students.
Human experts reached the same conclusions
Expert educators viewed the same film at the AAACE conference. The publication reports that the tool, described as one without the problems often associated with AI, rendered what a human might consider confirmation of the program's aims. The researchers, not the software, drew the final conclusions.
How Evidano fit the workflow
- 1The film transcript was uploaded into Evidano.
- 2It was prompted to summarize the perspectives of each participant group, producing a clear synopsis for all four roles.
- 3A thematic analysis was run, and Evidano surfaced eight prominent themes, including motivation, engagement, personal growth, mutual learning, and lifelong learning.
“We identified one for which we could find no reports of the problems commonly associated with AI, such as bias and hallucinations.”
“It seems artificial and human intelligence would agree on the determination AILYZE reached in concluding its media analysis of the film.”
Evidano (previously AILYZE) was named in the paper, cited with its URL, and its outputs attributed directly.
The authors learned of the tool through colleagues in evaluation who lauded it.
About Evidano (previously AILYZE)
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