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| Abstract Title: | Sentiment analysis of faculty responses; transition to online learning |
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| Abstract: | This project aims to understand physics faculty responses to transitioning to online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. We surveyed 662 physics faculty following the spring 2020 term, and 258 completed a follow up survey after the fall 2020 term. We used natural language processing to measure the change in sentiment scores of one hundred physics faculty from the United States that completed an optional written prompt on both the initial and follow up surveys. These sentiment scores measured between -1 and 1 for completely negative and completely positive respectively. Sentiment scores after spring 2020 were slightly positive with a median value of 0.2347. The distribution of sentiment changes was approximately normally distributed with a mean centered near zero. Analysis suggests the average sentiment did not change from the initial to followup surveys. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session 1 Room D |
| Poster Number: | 1D-15 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Colin Green Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Eric Brewe - Drexel University Jillian Mellen - Drexel Univserity |
