[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 167 (Thursday, August 28, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51328-51329]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-20406]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

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


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; 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 
September 29, 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.

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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: 21,573.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 6,059.
    Abstract: This study will examine the implementation of Ramp-Up to 
Readiness, a schoolwide guidance intervention aimed at increasing the 
college readiness of students. This intervention (called Phase one) 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 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. The revision to the collection being requested is to add a 
phase two to the evaluation. For this second phase, the impact of the 
program is being examined in addition to the implementation of the 
program. Data will be collected from an additional 54 schools for this 
second phase of the evaluation.

    Dated: August 22, 2014.
Stephanie Valentine,
Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Privacy, 
Information and Records Management Services, Office of Management.
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