Notice2023-16179
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Program for International Student Assessment 2025 (PISA 2025) Main Study Recruitment and Field Test
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Published
July 31, 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 145 (Monday, July 31, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49457-49458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-16179]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED-2023-SCC-0077]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; 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
August 30, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for proposed
information collection requests should be submitted within 30 days of
publication of this notice. Click on this link <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a> to access the site. Find this information collection request
(ICR) by selecting ``Department of Education'' under ``Currently Under
Review,'' then check the ``Only Show ICR for Public Comment'' checkbox.
<a href="http://Reginfo.gov">Reginfo.gov</a> provides two links to view documents related to this
information collection request. Information collection forms and
instructions may be found by clicking on the ``View Information
Collection (IC) List'' link. Supporting statements and other supporting
documentation may be found by clicking on the ``View Supporting
Statement and Other Documents'' link.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to
collection activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, 202-245-6347.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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: 18,903.
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
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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: July 26, 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.
[FR Doc. 2023-16179 Filed 7-28-23; 8:45 am]
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