Notice2023-09650
Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Program for International Student Assessment 2025 (PISA 2025) Main Study Recruitment and Field Test
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Published
May 8, 2023
Issuing agencies
Education Department
Abstract
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Department is proposing a revision of a currently approved information collection request (ICR).
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 88 (Monday, May 8, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29648-29649]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-09650]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED-2023-SCC-0077]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request;
Program for International Student Assessment 2025 (PISA 2025) Main
Study Recruitment and Field Test
AGENCY: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Department of
Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995,
the Department is proposing a revision of a currently approved
information collection request (ICR).
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
July 7, 2023.
ADDRESSES: To access and review all the documents related to the
information collection listed in this notice, please use <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> by searching the Docket ID number ED-2023-SCC-0077.
Comments submitted in response to this notice should be submitted
electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> by selecting the Docket ID number or via postal
mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. If the <a href="http://regulations.gov">regulations.gov</a>
site is not available to the public for any reason, the Department will
temporarily accept comments at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#9cd5dfd8f3fff7f9e8d1fbeedcf9f8b2fbf3ea"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a5ece6e1cac6cec0d1e8c2d7e5c0c18bc2cad3">[email protected]</span></a>. Please include the
docket ID number and the title of the information collection request
when requesting documents or submitting comments. Please note that
comments submitted after the comment period will not be accepted.
Written requests for information or comments submitted by postal mail
or delivery should be addressed to the Manager of the Strategic
Collections and Clearance Governance and Strategy Division, U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, LBJ, Room 4C210,
Washington, DC 20202-8240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to
collection
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activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, 202-245-6347.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department, in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)),
provides the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to
comment on proposed, revised, and continuing collections of
information. This helps the Department assess the impact of its
information collection requirements and minimize the public's reporting
burden. It also helps the public understand the Department's
information collection requirements and provide the requested data in
the desired format. The Department is soliciting comments on the
proposed information collection request (ICR) that is described below.
The Department is especially interested in public comment addressing
the following issues: (1) is this collection necessary to the proper
functions of the Department; (2) will this information be processed and
used in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate of burden accurate; (4)
how might the Department enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected; and (5) how might the Department
minimize the burden of this collection on the respondents, including
through the use of information technology. Please note that written
comments received in response to this notice will be considered public
records.
Title of Collection: Program for International Student Assessment
2025 (PISA 2025) Main Study Recruitment and Field Test.
OMB Control Number: 1850-0755.
Type of Review: A revision of a currently approved ICR.
Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals and Households.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 58,672.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 18,909.
Abstract: The Program for International Student Assessments (PISA)
is an international assessment of 15-year-olds, which focuses on
assessing students' reading, mathematics, and science literacy. PISA
was first administered in 2000 and is typically conducted every three
years. The United States has participated in all of the previous cycles
and planned to participate in 2021 in order to track trends and to
compare the performance of U.S. students with that of students in other
education systems. PISA is sponsored by the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD). In the United States, PISA is
conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES),
within the U.S. Department of Education.
In each administration of PISA, one of the subject areas (reading,
mathematics, or science literacy) is the major domain and has the
broadest content coverage, while the other two subjects are the minor
domains. PISA emphasizes functional skills that students have acquired
as they near the end of mandatory schooling (aged 15 years), and
students' knowledge and skills gained both in and out of school
environments. Other areas may also be assessed, such as, in the case of
PISA 2025, Learning in a Digital World (LDW), which will be an
innovative domain in 2025. PISA assesses students' knowledge and skills
gained both in and out of school environments. In addition to the
cognitive assessments described above, PISA 2025 will include
questionnaires administered to school principals and assessed students.
To prepare for the main study, PISA countries will conduct a field test
in the spring of the year previous, primarily to evaluate newly
developed assessment and questionnaire items but also to test the
assessment operations.
This request is to conduct PISA 2025 main study recruitment and the
PISA 2025 field test. This submission requests all burden for both the
field test (scheduled for early 2024) and the main study (scheduled for
late 2025), and presents materials (including recruitment and
communications materials) and the final international drafts of the
field test instruments. As part of this submission, NCES is publishing
a notice in the Federal Register allowing first a 60- and then a 30-day
public comment period. We anticipate that some materials will be
revised after the 60-day public comment period and encourage
stakeholders to see individual documents for details. The materials
that will be used in the 2025 main study will be based upon the field
test materials included in this submission. Additionally, this
submission is designed to adequately justify the need for and overall
practical utility of the full study and to present the overarching plan
for all of the phases of the data collection, providing as much detail
about the measures to be used as is available at the time of this
submission.
We plan to submit a revision (along with a 30-day public comment
period) in October 2023 in order to clear the final US version of the
field test instrument, as well as finalize any updated materials for
use in the 2024 field test. In order to begin recruiting schools for
the main study by October 2024, we will submit a change-request to OMB
in May 2024 with the final main study recruitment materials and
parental consent letters, details about any changes to the design and
procedures for the main study, and updates to the respondent burden
estimates for the main study data collection. Subsequently in spring
2025 we will submit a clearance request, with a 30-day public comment
period notice published in the Federal Register, with the final main
study procedures and instruments for data collection in the fall of
2025.
Dated: May 2, 2023.
Stephanie Valentine,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance, Governance and
Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning,
Evaluation and Policy Development.
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