• Individual Data Literacy Assessment

    Individual Data Literacy Assessment

    It is very useful for people new to data literacy to have a simple way to assess their foundational data literacy skills and mindsets, regardless of what role they play with data. Below is such an assessment.  It is 22 questions organized into 6 dimensions: understand data, interpret business requirements, create and interpret visualizations, apply the human element of data literacy, communicate with data, and mindsets.
  • Format: (000) 000-0000.

  • Understand Data

    This section assesses how well you understand raw data, including its type, classification, and any properties, as well as how well you understand simply statistical terminology of various descriptive statistics.

  • Interpret Business Requirements

    This section assesses how well you can understand the question being asked, identify relevant data, and how you can create proper key performance indicators.

  • Create and Interpret Data Visualizations

    This section assesses how well you can both create and interpret data visualizations. Given this is a basic foundational data literacy assessment,the focus is only on basic visualizations.

  • Apply the Human Element of Data Literacy

    This section assesses how well you understand cognitive bias and its impact on your perspective of data and information, as well as how well you can identify and apply techniques to mitigate the impact of bias.

  • Communicate with Data

    This section assesses how well you can communicate insights and decisions using data.

  • Mindsets

    This section assesses if you have the right mindsets to properly work with data.

  • You can use the table below to assess your foundational data literacy based off your total score.

     Total Score Foundational Data Literacy
    0-44 You need to work on multiple skills and mindsets to increase your foundational data literacy.
    45-69 You have some foundational data literacy skills, but still have a way to go to become foundationally data literate.
    70-94 You have a majority of the foundational data literacy skills, but there is still room for growth in a few areas.
    95-110 You have optimized all the foundational data literate skills. Congratulations! You can now look at the next level and grow from foundational skills to more intermediate and mastery levels.
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