David Donohoe|Eamon Costello
Data Visualisation Literacy in Higher Education: An Exploratory Study of Understanding of a Learning Dashboard Tool
Dublin City University|Dublin City University
visualisation data become ubiquitous visualisations used represent data way easy understand useful lives data visualisation needs suitable extract correct information complete task make informed decision minimising impact biases achieve ability create read visualisations become important ability read write therefore information visualisation community applying attention literacy decision making data visualisations recently researchers lacked valid reliable test instruments measure literacy users taxonomy detect biased judgement data visualisations literature review showed relatively little research data visualisations different user data literacy levels authentic settings lack studies provide evidence presence cognitive biases data visualisations exploratory research study undertaken develop method assess perceived usefulness confidence reporting dashboards within higher education adapting existing research instruments survey designed test perceived usefulness perceived skill 24 multiplechoice test items covering six data visualisations based eight tasks study sent 157 potential participants response rate 2038 results showed data visualisations useful purpose data visualisations always understood also showed consensus respondents perceive data visualisation literacy higher believe peers however higher overconfidence lower actual data visualisation literacy score finally discuss benefits limitations possible future research areas