“Asking, Learning, Seeking Out”: An Exploration of Data Literacy for Teaching

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-5-2019

Publication Title

Educational Forum

First page number:

1

Last page number:

16

Abstract

The current study explored preservice and inservice teachers’ perspectives on data literacy for teaching. Semi-structured interviews were employed with 12 teacher candidates in elementary and special education. The findings revealed participants’ misconceptions regarding formative and summative data; their understanding of the value of formative data; perceptions of challenges related to data literacy for teaching including time, making sense of data, and reliability and validity; and candidates’ preferences for authentic data literacy instruction.

Keywords

Data literacy for teaching; Preservice teacher education; Inservice teacher education

Disciplines

Teacher Education and Professional Development

Language

English

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