Survey Instruments for Data Literacy Assessment in Higher Education

Featuring the survey instruments used in a 2022 research project at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences to measure perceived data literacy among business programme students and lecturers. The questionnaires operationalize data literacy across six core competencies: awareness, access, engagement, management, communication, and use. The instruments include full item lists, Likert-scale response structures, and demographic questions.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between demographic questions and scores across the six core data literacy competencies.
• Reuse the Likert-scale response structures to assess data literacy awareness and engagement levels in a new educational context.
• Adapt the survey item lists for communication and use competencies to monitor curriculum development in business programmes.
• Employ the operationalized frameworks to identify potential gaps between educational offerings and labour-market needs.

Strengths

• Instruments are based on established academic frameworks by Calzado Prado and Marzal (2013) and Maybee and Zilinski (2015).
• Data literacy is operationalized across six defined core competencies: awareness, access, engagement, management, communication, and use.
• The dataset includes the full item lists and Likert-scale response structures used for data collection.

Limitations

• The dataset contains only the survey instruments, not the collected response data, limiting direct analysis.
• The geographic and institutional scope is limited to a single university of applied sciences in Rotterdam.
• The instruments are tailored for business programmes, which may limit direct applicability to other academic disciplines.

Provenance

Source

Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences research project.

Collection Method

Survey instruments informed by established academic frameworks.

Time Range

2022

Freshness

The instruments were created for a 2022 research project.

Geography

Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands).