Toward an Understanding of Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Data Literacy

• In Event: Literacy Across the Disciplines

Abstract

In our data-rich world, there are strong calls for greater focus on data literacy. Since teachers are often trained in one specific subject, they need additional support to teach STEM integrated data literacy. In addition to subject matter knowledge of data literacy, this support must focus on pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). As there is a major dearth of research on PCK for data literacy this study seeks to develop an understanding of the concept. The participating teachers were able to surface their knowledge of student understanding of data and strategies for teaching with and about data to define a number of components of PCK that begin to build a framework for what PCK for data literacy might look like.

Authors

• Katherine M. Miller, Concord Consortium
  Presenting Author

• Susan A. Yoon, University of Pennsylvania
  Non-Presenting Author