Data Literacy

This paper proposes a conceptualization of statistical literacy and describes its key components. Statistical literacy is the ability to interpret, critically evaluate, and communicate about statistical information.

This article is crucial in defining data literacy. It also talks about its relationship to other literacies and has a good reference list.

This article describes the full spectrum of data information literacy, by discussing data management, including storing, describing, organizing, tracking, preserving and using the data. Not just consuming, but really the whole breadth of production, consuming, and applying metadata, and making it accessible.

Discusses data literacy, information literacy, and statistical literacy from the perspective of a statistician. The connection here is Critical Thinking. The author suggests librarians take the initiative in teaching data literacy.

The article concludes that data services requires librarians to take a leadership role in advocating for true teaching partnerships, where instructors and librarians collaborate closely to create rich learning experiences for students.

This article addresses how subject specialists and general instruction librarians can integrate numeric information (in the form of statistics) into library instruction sessions and information literacy programs.

This literature review by Amanda Wanner supports the hypothesis that librarians should teach data literacy. It describes different definitions of data literacy and advocates for the librarian’s role in educating students.