A Sentiment Analysis of Emergency Online Special Education after COVID Mass Vaccinations Started

Yıl 2024, Cilt: 6 Sayı: 1, 66 - 81

Kadir Kozan , Serkan Ayvaz Kharon Grimmet

https://doi.org/10.69485/tseji.1425263

Öz

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.

Anahtar Kelimeler

emergency online special education, sentiment analysis, mass vaccinations

Acil Uzaktan Özel Eğitimin Kovid Kitlesel Aşıları Başladıktan Sonra Yapılan Bir Duyarlılık Analizi

Öz

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.

Anahtar Kelimeler

acil uzaktan özel eğitim, duyarlılık analizi, kitlesel aşılar

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