[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 48 (Monday, March 12, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 10714]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-04881]



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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Application Package for Learning Management System (LMS) Pre- 
and Post-Test Assessment Questions

AGENCY: Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).

ACTION: Notice of Information Collection; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, CNCS 
is seeking approval for a new information collection.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the individual and office 
listed in the ADDRESSES section by May 11, 2018.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by the title of the 
information collection activity, by any of the following methods:
    (1) By mail sent to: Corporation for National and Community 
Service, Attention Adrienne DiTommaso, 250 E Street SW, Washington, DC, 
20525.
    (2) By hand delivery or by courier to the CNCS mailroom at the mail 
address given in paragraph (1) above, between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. 
Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except federal holidays.
    (3) Electronically through www.regulations.gov.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available 
to the public through regulations.gov. For this reason, please do not 
include in your comments information of a confidential nature, such as 
sensitive personal information or proprietary information. If you send 
an email comment, your email address will be automatically captured and 
included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket and 
made available on the internet. Please note that responses to this 
public comment request containing any routine notice about the 
confidentiality of the communication will be treated as public comment 
that may be made available to the public notwithstanding the inclusion 
of the routine notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adrienne DiTommaso, 202-606-3611, or 
by email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title of Collection: Learning Management System (LMS) Pre- and 
Post-test Assessment Questions.
    OMB Control Number: TBD.
    Type of Review: New.
    Respondents/Affected Public: Corporation for National and Community 
Service grantees.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 100.
    Total Estimated Annual Frequency: 12.
    Total Estimated Average Response Time per Response: 5 minutes per 
course; 12 courses in total = 60 minutes or 1 hour maximum across all 
courses.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 100 hours; 60 
minutes x 100 respondents (max.) = 6000 minutes or 100 hours.
    Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): None.
    Total Burden Cost (operating/maintenance): None.
    Abstract: The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) 
has procured a Learning Management System (LMS) to enhance training and 
technical assistance at the agency. The Office of Research and 
Evaluation (ORE) is using this tool to enhance existing methods of 
teaching and learning about program evaluation and research topics. ORE 
has programmed 12 Evaluation Core Curriculum courses on the LMS for 
users to explore interactively. In order to enhance the utility of the 
courses, ORE would like implement knowledge checks in the form of 
topically focused pre/post-test questions so that participants can 
identify knowledge gaps that need to be addressed with further 
learning. This will also enable ORE to see where common learning issues 
arise, and where additional resources should be targeted. CNCS also 
seeks to continue using the currently approved pre/post-test questions, 
which were cleared under a generic clearance, until the current 
information collection is approved by OMB. The currently approved 
information collection expired on October 31, 2017.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the request for OMB approval. Comments are invited 
on: (a) Whether the collection of information is necessary for the 
proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether 
the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 
agency's estimate of the burden of the collection of information; (c) 
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of 
information on respondents, including through the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e) 
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, 
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden 
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information 
to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying 
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and 
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to 
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and 
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise 
disclose the information. All written comments will be available for 
public inspection on regulations.gov.

    Dated: March 2, 2018.
Mary Hyde,
Director of the Office of Research and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 2018-04881 Filed 3-9-18; 8:45 am]
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