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To establish and validate a standardized psychometric assessment measuring critical thinking and reasoning about deceptive or misleading data visualizations.

April 19, 2023

CALVI: Critical Thinking Assessment for Literacy in Visualizations

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To establish and validate a standardized psychometric assessment measuring critical thinking and reasoning about deceptive or misleading data visualizations.
Categorized chart-design decisions that cause misleading conclusions to construct an initial item bank across diverse chart types.
Tested the provisional assessment on 497 participants.
Refined test items using Item Response Theory, qualitative analysis, Content Validity Index, and a custom wrong-due-to-misleader score.
Constructed a final 45-item assessment bank exhibiting high psychometric reliability.
Established item-bank usage recommendations and test configurations across diverse research and educational scenarios.

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Validation study demonstrates high reliability for a 45-item test evaluating interpretation of misleading charts in adults, suggesting a reliable standard for visualization literacy.

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Ge et al. (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d77d1ddb9d5e1bf4b8b17d https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581406

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Validation study demonstrates high reliability for a 45-item test evaluating interpretation of misleading charts in adults, suggesting a reliable standard for visualization literacy.

CALVI: Critical Thinking Assessment for Literacy in Visualizations

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CALVI: Critical Thinking Assessment for Literacy in Visualizations

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