[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 144 (Tuesday, July 28, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44945-44946]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-18350]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No.: ED-2015-ICCD-0096]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Program for International Student Assessment 2012 (PISA:2012) 
Validation Study 2015 Field Test and Main Study Additional Module 
Amendment

AGENCY: Institute of Education Science (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 27, 2015.

ADDRESSES: To access and review all the documents related to the 
information collection listed in this notice, please use http://wwww.regulations.gov by searching the Docket ID number ED-2015-ICCD-
0096. Comments submitted in response to this notice should be submitted 
electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov by selecting the Docket ID number 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 specific questions related to 
collection activities, please contact Kashka Kubzdela, (202) 502-7411.

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: Program for International Student Assessment 
2012 (PISA:2012) Validation Study 2015 Field Test and Main Study 
Additional Module Amendment.
    OMB Control Number: 1850-0911.
    Type of Review: A revision of an existing information collection.
    Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 6,620.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 2,347.
    Abstract: PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) is an 
international assessment of 15-year-olds designed to evaluate, at the 
end of compulsory education, how well students are prepared for the 
challenges of further education and the workforce (OMB# 1850-0755). To 
date, in the United States, PISA has been administered only as a cross-
sectional study, and thus it has not been possible to evaluate how well 
it assesses key competencies of 15-year-olds for their later success. 
NCES proposes to conduct a follow-up study with students who 
participated in PISA 2012 to learn how performance on PISA relates to 
subsequent outcomes and skills of young adults. The follow-up study--
referred to in materials to potential respondents as the PISA Young 
Adult

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Follow-Up Study, and in this request as the PISA Validation Study--will 
provide information about how students' skills and experiences at age 
15, collected through PISA, relate to subsequent literacy, numeracy, 
and problem-solving skills, as well as educational attainment, 
education and work experiences, skills used in daily life, career 
intentions, and aspects of well-being. In fall 2015, when these 
students will be around 18 years of age, they will be asked to take the 
web-based version of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and 
Development 's (OECD) Program for the International Assessment of Adult 
Competencies (PIAAC) assessment and background questionnaire--the 
Education and Skills Online (ESO). In fall 2013, students in the United 
States who participated in PISA 2012 and supplied contact information 
were contacted and invited to update their contact information in 
preparation for the follow-up study (OMB# 1850-0900 v.1). In March 
2015, OMB approved recruitment of the PISA 2012 sample respondents who 
have been successfully located; administer ESO to a field test sample 
in the 2015; and subsequently administering ESO to a main study sample 
in later 2015 (OMB# 1850-0900 v.2). This submission is to add another 
module, the subjective well-being and health (SWBH) module, to the 
validation study questionnaire per OECD requirement. The SWBH module 
was included in the first approval for PISA Validation Study 2015 (OMB# 
1850-0900 v.1) and is now being added to the final field test and main 
study questionnaire in the currently active PISA Validation Study 2015 
record (OMB# 1850-0900 v.2).

    Dated: July 22, 2015.
Kate Mullan,
Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Office of 
the Chief Privacy Officer, Office of Management.
[FR Doc. 2015-18350 Filed 7-27-15; 8:45 am]
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