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

Authors

Jori S. Beck, Old Dominion UniversityFollow
Joseph John Morgan, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Nancy Brown, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Heather Whitesides, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Derek R. Riddle, California State University, Stanislaus

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

Repository Citation

Beck, J. S., Morgan, J. J., Brown, N., Whitesides, H., Riddle, D. R. (2019). “Asking, Learning, Seeking Out”: An Exploration of Data Literacy for Teaching. Educational Forum 1-16.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131725.2020.1674438