Data Quality Literacy: Empowering Academic Librarians to Teach Data Quality Evaluation

Abstract

Data quality literacy lies at the intersection of information evaluation and data literacy.
It focuses on developing literacy skills in evaluating data quality and developing critical
thinking about data. Although the ACRL guidelines for teaching information literacy
shifted from the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (2000)
to the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (2016), the expectation
for students to develop information evaluation skills has remained consistent