Turkish Special Education Journal: International 2630-6123 Hakan SARI 10.69485/tseji.1425263 Special Education and Disability (Other) Özel Eğitim ve Engelli Eğitimi (Diğer) Acil Uzaktan Özel Eğitimin Kovid Kitlesel Aşıları Başladıktan Sonra Yapılan Bir Duyarlılık Analizi A Sentiment Analysis of Emergency Online Special Education after COVID Mass Vaccinations Started https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8241-5597 Kozan Kadir Florida State University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2016-4443 Ayvaz Serkan University of Denmark https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4842-4630 Grimmet Kharon Purdue University 12 20 2024 6 1 66 81 01 26 2024 03 14 2024 Copyright © 2018, Turkish Special Education Journal: International 2018 Turkish Special Education Journal: International

Bu çalışma kişilerin acil uzaktan özel eğitime yönelik duyarlılıklarını kovid kitlesel aşıları başladıktan sonra incelemiştir ki amacı kişilerin bu duyarlılıklarının pozitif, negatif ya da nötr olup olmadığını belirlemektir. Sonuçlar incelenen Twitter paylaşımlarının çoğunun pozitif olduğunu ve özel gereksinimler ile özel eğitime odaklandıklarını göstermiştir. Özellikle özel eğitime odaklanan çoğu paylaşımın içerikleri pozitif bulunmuştur ve bunların günlük ortalama duyarlılık puanları hiçbir zaman sıfırın altına inmemiştir. Benzer şekilde, özel gereksinim ve özel eğitim, paylaşımlarda en sık geçen konular olmuştur ve konu modellemesi de paylaşımların içeriklerinin özel gereksinimli öğrencilerin ihtiyaçlarına odaklandığını göstermiştir. Öğretmen eğitimi ile özel eğitim araştırma ve uygulamalarıyla ilintili olarak, bütün bu bulgular göstermektedir ki acil uzaktan özel eğitim kriz dönemlerinde uygun bir seçenek olabilir ve kitlesel aşı uygulamaları pozitif bir atmosferin oluşmasına katkıda bulunabilir.

This study examined people’s sentiments toward emergency online special education after mass vaccinations became available to determine whether people had positive, negative, or neutral sentiments towards emergency online special education. The results revealed that most tweets were positive and focused on special needs and special education during emergency online special education. Specifically, most tweets focused on special education, and they included a positive content with average daily sentiment scores never getting smaller than zero. Similarly, special need and special education turned out to be the most frequent expressions used, and topic modeling indicated that target tweets’ content focused on the needs of students with special exceptionalities. All these findings suggest that emergency online special education can be a viable alternative during times of crisis and availability of vaccinations at a larger scale may help to create a positive atmosphere thereby informing teacher education and special education research and practice.

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