Survey Research on Data Literacy of Pre-Service Primary and Secondary School Teachers in the Context of Big Data Era

Abstract

The influence of big data on education is becoming tremendous day by day along with the development of information technology. It has gradually become the basic requirement of teachers in the new era to be able to make scientific teaching decisions basing on data in the teaching process. Therefore, it is necessary to enhance the training of data literacy in the training process of pre-service primary and secondary school teachers. In order to investigate the data literacy status of pre-service primary and secondary school teachers, this study conducts a questionnaire survey on 366 pre-service primary and secondary school teachers in Liaoning Province, China. According to the survey results, this paper analyzes the current situation of data literacy of pre-service primary and secondary school teachers in Liaoning Province as well as the differences between different genders, and puts forward training suggestions aimed at improving the data literacy of pre-service primary and secondary school teachers.