Elevating Enterprise Data Literacy: Data Literacy Assessments
Channel: DATAVERSITY
Date: 2023-05-09

Ask any data professional and they will agree: The workplace would operate more effectively if everyone understood how to use, produce, interpret, and explain data and the insights they produce.  

Even if an organization achieves full agreement to invest in data literacy, significant questions remain: How data-literate are workers now?  How will we know when they are sufficiently data-literate?  

The truth is there is no single, accepted measure of data literacy. Nor is there a designated set of attributes encompassed by literacy. Assessments range from a few abstract questions about levels of comfort and familiarity, to long, detailed, in-depth, terminology-laden lists of items covering six levels of 18 different capabilities.   

In order to gauge progress in data literacy, ironically, we will need better, more consistent data about current levels and changes in literacy.   

In this session, we will explore existing metrics and discuss the need for consensus in definitions and measures.