The research context
Rebalancing Retention: Organizational Solutions for the Marine Corps Career Planning Program is a June 2025 Naval Postgraduate School thesis, published in the Department of Defense Management Acquisition Research Program Sponsored Report Series.
The author conducted 25 semi-structured interviews with active-duty Career Counselors and applied a grounded analysis approach following the Gioia methodology. The study was approved by the Naval Postgraduate School and Marine Corps Institutional Review Boards.
Human judgment stayed in the loop
62 → 25 concepts after researcher refinement
799 → 361 excerpts retained in the final model
The publication discloses its use of Evidano within the data analysis section, names the tool, and describes how the researcher reviewed and refined the AI-assisted output. It is a credible example of transparent, human-supervised AI use in published research, with the AI assisting the analysis rather than replacing the researcher.
How Evidano fit the workflow
The publication describes a workflow where AI accelerated structuring and the researcher kept interpretive control.
- 125 interviews, transcribed and prepared
Transcripts were reviewed against the audio for accuracy and anonymized before analysis.
- 2Evidano surfaced an initial structure
The platform produced 62 first-order concepts tied to 799 interview excerpts.
- 3The researcher reviewed and refined
Through iterative human review, related concepts were merged into higher-order themes.
- 4A final, traceable model
25 concepts, 361 excerpts, 6 second-order themes, and 2 aggregate dimensions.
“AILYZE... leverages its own AI model to assist with theme identification and cross-group comparison.”
Surfaced an initial set of concepts directly from interview language.
Mapped how each concept appeared across all 25 interviews.
Helped compare perspectives across counselor billet types.
Tied concepts back to specific interview excerpts for review.
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