Mini-VLAT: A Short and Effective Measure of Visualization Literacy

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2023
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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The visualization community regards visualization literacy as a necessary skill. Yet, despite the recent increase in research into visualization literacy by the education and visualization communities, we lack practical and time-effective instruments for the widespread measurements of people's comprehension and interpretation of visual designs. We present Mini-VLAT, a brief but practical visualization literacy test. The Mini-VLAT is a 12-item short form of the 53-item Visualization Literacy Assessment Test (VLAT). The Mini-VLAT is reliable (coefficient omega = 0.72) and strongly correlates with the VLAT. Five visualization experts validated the Mini-VLAT items, yielding an average content validity ratio (CVR) of 0.6. We further validate Mini-VLAT by demonstrating a strong positive correlation between study participants' Mini-VLAT scores and their aptitude for learning an unfamiliar visualization using a Parallel Coordinate Plot test. Overall, the Mini-VLAT items showed a similar pattern of validity and reliability as the 53-item VLAT. The results show that Mini-VLAT is a psychometrically sound and practical short measure of visualization literacy.
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CCS Concepts: Human-centered computing -> Visualization tools, Empirical Study

        
@article{
10.1111:cgf.14809
, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, title = {{
Mini-VLAT: A Short and Effective Measure of Visualization Literacy
}}, author = {
Pandey, Saugat
and
Ottley, Alvitta
}, year = {
2023
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
}, ISSN = {
1467-8659
}, DOI = {
10.1111/cgf.14809
} }
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