What Evidano surfaced
The publication reports that a key distinction, how students framed women versus men instructors, was not evident in the team's initial individual coding, nor when they coded in gender-based pairs. Through their thought partnership with Evidano, the authors identified those comparative distinctions, then revisited and confirmed them with their own researcher expertise.
How Evidano fit the workflow
Evidano sat inside a multi-round, human-led workflow, not in place of it.
- 1Raw SET comments
Open-ended student responses from 22 courses across one academic year.
- 2Individual coding
Each researcher coded independently, applying a priori constructs and inductive codes.
- 3Team review
Coded data refined in pairs, then finalized by the full research team.
- 4Evidano thought-partnership
Used to clarify, expand, and refine analytic considerations, and to surface comparative gender patterns.
- 5Human confirmation
The team revisited and confirmed the analyses through their collaborative researcher expertise.
“Through our thought partnership with AILYZE, we identified comparative distinctions in how the SET converged or differed, based on perceptions of the instructional roles played by instructors, particularly in relation to gender.”
“These AI-assisted affordances helped ensure the robustness and quality of our analysis, not as substitutes, but as a complement to our human intelligence analyses.”
The study frames AI use as supporting, not replacing, researcher judgment, with findings confirmed by human expertise.
Evidano (previously AILYZE) is named in the methods, ethical considerations, acknowledgments, and reference list of this IRB-approved study.
Comparative analysis can reveal patterns that single-coder or paired review may miss.
Interviews, focus groups, open-ended survey responses, and documents.
A workflow you can disclose and cite, with human oversight kept central.
About Evidano (previously AILYZE)
Evidano is AI-assisted qualitative data analysis software for interviews, focus groups, open-ended survey responses, and documents. It supports AI-assisted thematic analysis with your own or an AI-suggested codebook, transcription and translation in 100+ languages, clickable quotes and citations, and exportable visual reports. End-to-end encryption, no third-party data sharing, and your data is not used to train AI. From USD 50/month for unlimited analysis.
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Researcher interviews, the wording authors published when citing Evidano, and accuracy comparisons against manual coding.
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Research spotlights: researchers in their own words
Interviews with researchers at leading universities and institutes about how they actually used Evidano in work they went on to publish.
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How Evidano was used, in published methods sections
Verbatim excerpts from 20 published studies describing what Evidano did in their analysis — as a thought partner, a second coder, for initial coding, or for synthesis.
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Methodology guides and research writing
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Human vs AI: validated accuracy benchmarks
Three head-to-head comparisons against expert human analysis — 371 interview transcripts with Arizona State and Penn State, 298 evaluation reports for a UN evaluation group, and UNICEF’s manual-coding review.