[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 179 (Monday, September 16, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56867-56868]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-22473]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No.: ED-2013-ICCD-0093]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Program for International Student Assessments (PISA) 
Validation Study

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences/National Center for Education 
Statistics (IES), Department of Education (ED).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing a new information 
collection.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
October 16, 2013.

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in response to this notice should be 
submitted electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 
http://www.regulations.gov by selecting Docket ID number ED-2013-ICCD-
0093 or via postal mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. Please 
note that comments submitted by fax or email and those 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 Director of the Information Collection Clearance 
Division, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, 
Room 2E103, Washington, DC 20202-4537.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions related to collection 
activities or burden, please call Katrina Ingalls, 703-620-3655 or 
electronically mail [email protected]. Please do not send comments 
here.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Education (ED), 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. ED is soliciting comments on the proposed 
information collection request (ICR) that is described below. The 
Department of Education is especially interested in public comment 
addressing the following issues: (1) Is this collection

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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 Assessments 
(PISA) Validation Study.
    OMB Control Number: 1850-NEW.
    Type of Review: A new collection.
    Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 5,810.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 2,240.
    Abstract: PISA (Program for International Student Assessment OMB 
1850-0755) is an international assessment of 15-year-olds 
designed to evaluate, at the end of compulsory education, how well 
students are prepared for further education or entry into the workforce 
and, more fundamentally, to contribute to society as functioning young 
adults. However, PISA has been implemented as a cross-sectional study 
and, thus, the claim that PISA assesses key competencies for later 
success has never been tested in the United States. What is lacking is 
an empirical linkage between PISA and measures of successful transition 
from high school to postsecondary education, the workforce, or the 
types of skills required for successful participation in adult life. 
This Validation Study is designed to provide this empirical linkage. (A 
separate OMB number is being requested for this clearance since it is a 
separate study from the PISA 1850-0755 collection.) Students 
in the U.S. who participated in PISA in 2012 and supplied contact 
information will be contacted in early 2013 and invited to participate 
in the PISA Validation Study. In 2015, when these students will be 18 
years old, they will be asked to complete an online questionnaire and 
assessment, based on those used in the Program for the International 
Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), assessing their literacy, 
numeracy, and problem-solving skills, and asking them about their 
educational attainment, education and work experiences, skills used in 
daily life, and aspects of health and well-being. This submission is 
for address updates of both filed trial and main study sample members, 
and will be followed in 2014 by requests for field test and main study 
recruitment and data collections activities.

Kate Mullan,
Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Privacy, 
Information and Records Management Services, Office of Management.
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