Assessing Changes in Preservice Teachers During a Classroom Data Literacy Intervention

• In Event: 14.043 - Roundtable Session 1
  In Roundtable Session: 14.043-12 - Developing Data and Assessment Literacy in Preservice Education

Abstract

This pretest-posttest study investigated 64 pre-service teachers’ perceptions of the impact of a six-hour data literacy intervention, which involved scoring classroom assessments, and analyzing, interpreting, and making decisions based on the data. The study also examined changes in participants’ self-reported attitudes and beliefs and objectively-measured data literacy during the intervention. Participant reports suggest that the intervention increased the pre-service teachers’ knowledge and skills related to data literacy. Pretest-posttest changes were also observed in three attitudes/beliefs (ds ranged from .34 to .46) and data literacy (d=.60). Other reported evidence largely challenges the possibility that maturational factors account for the findings.

Authors

• Todd Reeves, Northern Illinois University

• Sheryl L. Honig, Northern Illinois University