Evaluation of Scientific Data Literacy Competency for Postgraduates in China and Construction of Data Literacy Education System

Abstract

[Purpose/Significance] Based on the investigation of scientific data literacy ability of domestic graduate students, this paper constructs the scientific data literacy ability training system of university libraries, so as to provide targeted suggestions for university libraries to carry out scientific data literacy education. [Method/Process] Based on the data literacy evaluation research, a questionnaire was designed, and graduate students s of Jiangnan University were taken as the sample. [Results/Conclusions] The research shows that the data consciousness and data ethics of postgraduates in domestic universities are showing an optimistic trend. But students' ability of data collection, data organization and management, data utilization and preservation need to be improved, especially the data analysis capabilities need to be urgently strengthened. Based on this, this paper constructs a training system in accordance with the current situation of scientific data literacy of university graduates from four aspects of training objectives, contents, methods and evaluation.

Keywords

• university libraries|scientific data literacy|data analysis|scientific data literacy education