Sentiment Analysis of Instructional Feedback

Author

Evan Scherr

Published

February 24, 2026

What I Did // Context

  • I conducted a word-frequency and sentiment analysis of instructional feedback narratives from a district dataset.
  • All observers were anonymized.
  • No individual comments are displayed.

Research Question

How does the tone of instructional feedback vary across observers when measured using a structured sentiment analysis approach?

Most Common Words

Net Sentiment by Observer (Top/Bottom)

Distribution of Observer Tone

Conclusions

  • Instructional feedback trends predominantly positive.
  • Variation exists across observers.
  • Some observers demonstrate more neutral or balanced tone.

Limitations + Opportunities

  • The embedded lexicon is limited.
  • Contextual meaning of instructional vocabulary may not align with general sentiment labels.
  • Future work could build a domain-specific lexicon tailored to instructional coaching language.