Information and Learning Sciences: Volume 125 Issue 3/4

Guest editorial: Special issue – perspectives on data literacies

Amelia Acker, Leanne Bowler, Luci Pangrazio

Promoting students’ informal inferential reasoning through arts-integrated data literacy education

Camillia Matuk, Ralph Vacca, Anna Amato, Megan Silander, Kayla DesPortes, Peter J. Woods, Marian Tes

Arts-integration is a promising approach to building students’ abilities to create and critique arguments with data, also known as informal inferential reasoning (IIR). However…

Exploring alternative discourses about datafication in a speculative youth participatory action research curriculum

Ezequiel Aleman

This paper aims to address the limitations in designing educational approaches that apply critical approaches to data literacy, given the obscure nature of digital platforms…

Using network visualizations to engage elementary students in locally relevant data literacy

Mengxi Zhou, Selena Steinberg, Christina Stiso, Joshua A. Danish, Kalani Craig

This study aims to explore how network visualization provides opportunities for learners to explore data literacy concepts using locally and personally relevant data.

Community college students’ self-assessment of data literacy: exploring differences amongst demographic, academic, and career characteristics

Sarah Amber Evans, Lingzi Hong, Jeonghyun Kim, Erin Rice-Oyler, Irhamni Ali

Data literacy empowers college students, equipping them with essential skills necessary for their personal lives and careers in today’s data-driven world. This study aims to…

Teen-adult interactions during the co-design of data literacy activities for the public library: insights from a natural language processing analysis of linguistic patterns

Leanne Bowler, Irene Lopatovska, Mark S. Rosin

The purpose of this study is to explore teen-adult dialogic interactions during the co-design of data literacy activities in order to determine the nature of teen thinking, their…

Critical datafication literacy – a framework for educating about datafication

Ina Sander

In light of a need for more critical education about datafication, this paper aims to develop a framework for critical datafication literacy that is grounded in theoretical and…