[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 111 (Tuesday, June 10, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33180-33181]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-13403]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No. ED-2014-ICCD-0083]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; 
Implementation Study of the Ramp Up to Readiness Program

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 revision of an existing 
information collection.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
August 11, 2014.

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-2014-ICCD-
0083 or via postal mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. If the 
regulations.gov site is not available to the public for any reason, ED 
will temporarily accept comments at [email protected]. Please note 
that comments submitted by fax or email and those submitted after the 
comment period will not be accepted; ED will ONLY accept comments 
during the comment period in this mailbox when the regulations.gov site 
is not available. 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, Mailstop L-OM-2-
2E319, Room 2E105, Washington, DC 20202.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to 
collection activities, please contact Chris Boccanfuso, 202-219-1674.

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 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: Implementation Study of the Ramp Up to 
Readiness Program.
    OMB Control Number: 1850-0907.
    Type of Review: A revision of an existing information collection.
    Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 62,711.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 18,178.
    Abstract: This study will examine the implementation of Ramp-Up to 
Readiness, a schoolwide guidance intervention aimed at increasing the 
college readiness of students. The intervention is at present being 
implemented in 34 high schools in Minnesota, and the developers intend 
to make the intervention available to a much larger set of Minnesota 
schools. No independently gathered high-quality evidence exists, 
however, on whether schools are able to implement this comprehensive 
intervention as intended or how its core components compare to the 
college-readiness supports in other high schools. The project for which 
OMB clearance is requested will attempt to gather such evidence from 22 
public Minnesota high schools through the least burdensome means. The 
school-level implementation study will focus on assessing whether Ramp-
Up school staff implement the program as intended, on identifying the 
extent to which the Ramp-Up program differs from the college-readiness 
supports offered in schools without Ramp-Up, and on the validity of a 
measure of personal college readiness, which the developers hypothesize 
is a key mechanism through which the program impacts later outcomes. 
The study will collect data from school staff in the following 
activities: Administrative data collection, focus groups in January and 
June, extant document collection, instructional logs, student and staff

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surveys, and student personal readiness assessment. The findings 
produced through analysis of these data will help (1) state education 
agencies seeking strategies and programs to endorse as a potential 
means of improving students college readiness and college enrollment, 
(2) local education agencies that are considering the challenges of 
implementing Ramp-Up, (3) the developer of this intervention (the 
College Readiness Consortium at the University of Minnesota) and 
developers of other college readiness interventions who continually 
seek to improve their programs by using information from studies like 
this, and (4) a group of education stakeholders in the Midwest 
interested in considering whether to conduct a study of the impacts of 
the Ramp-Up intervention on student outcomes.

    Dated: June 4, 2014.
Stephanie Valentine,
Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Privacy, 
Information and Records Management Services, Office of Management.
[FR Doc. 2014-13403 Filed 6-9-14; 8:45 am]
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