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Peer-reviewed article

Volda and Melbourne researchers used AI interview analysis to triangulate manual coding

A research team from Volda University College in Norway, the University of Melbourne, the University of Oslo, and Kellogg College, Oxford used Evidano to analyse interview transcripts. Their mixed methods study is published open access in Educational Psychology (Routledge / Taylor & Francis), online in July 2025 and in the January 2026 issue.

The study used Evidano, then published as AILYZE.

209
survey participants, a 97% response rate
11
interview transcripts analysed, 18 to 50 minutes each
>90%
agreement between the two human coders before the AI pass
2
sections disclosing the AI workflow

What the study analysed

The explanatory sequential mixed methods study examined pre-service teachers’ attitudes toward and experiences with generative AI in Norwegian teacher education. Researchers surveyed 209 participants, then interviewed 11 of them in November and December 2023, with interviews running from 18 to 50 minutes. The qualitative phase used inductive thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006) and was approved by Sikt, the Norwegian agency for research ethics. This is the kind of rich, unstructured interview data that qualitative researchers and evaluators work with every day.

AI use was disclosed openly

The authors named the tool, then published as AILYZE, in both the Methods and the Acknowledgements, with a link. A transparent, citable, auditable workflow that holds up to peer review.

How Evidano fit the workflow

As described in the study’s methods, alongside human researchers.

  1. 1
    Interviews transcribed and anonymised

    Auto-transcripts were corrected against the audio and identifying details were removed.

  2. 2
    Two researchers coded the transcripts manually

    Inter-rater agreement between the two human coders exceeded 90%.

  3. 3
    Evidano analysed the same anonymised transcripts

    A second analytic pass over the interview data.

  4. 4
    Results compared for triangulation and validation

    The team checked Evidano’s results against the manual analysis. Human judgement stayed central.

“In the next stage, the anonymised interview transcriptions were further analysed using the AI tool AILYZE (http://www.ailyze.com/).”
— From the published study, Methods (AILYZE is now Evidano)
“The research team compared the results from AILYZE with those obtained from the initial manual analysis of the interviews for triangulation and validation purposes”
— From the published study, Methods
“We acknowledge the use of the AI tool 'Nettskjema' for auto-transcriptions of the interviews and that of AILYZE for pre-liminary analysis of the interview data.”
— From the published study, Acknowledgements

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Manual only

Coding interviews by hand is slow. A single analytic pass can leave themes unconfirmed and findings harder to cross-check.

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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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