[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 55 (Thursday, March 21, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10483-10484]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-05403]


=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No.: ED-2019-ICCD-0032]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; 
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2019 and 2020 Long-
Term Trend (LTT) Update Emergency Clearance

AGENCY: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Department of 
Education (ED).

ACTION: Notice.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is 
requesting the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to conduct an 
emergency review of a revised information collection.

DATES: NCES requests comments to be submitted by April 16, 2019 for 
this emergency information collection. A regular clearance process is 
also hereby being initiated. Interested persons are invited to submit 
comments on or before May 20, 2019.

ADDRESSES: To access and review all the documents related to the 
information collection listed in this notice, please use http://www.regulations.gov by searching the Docket ID number ED-2019-ICCD-
0032. 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. If the regulations.gov 
site is not available to the public for any reason, ED will temporarily 
accept comments at [email protected]. Please include the docket ID 
number and the title of the information collection request when 
requesting documents or submitting comments. 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, 550 12th Street SW, PCP, Room 9089, 
Washington, DC 20202-0023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to 
collection activities, please contact Kashka Kubzdela, 202-245-7377 or 
email [email protected].

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: National Assessment of Educational Progress 
(NAEP) 2019 and 2020 Long-Term

[[Page 10484]]

Trend (LTT) Update Emergency Clearance.
    OMB Control Number: 1850-0928.
    Type of Review: A revision of an existing information collection.
    Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals or Households.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 642,087.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 322,765.
    Abstract: The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 
conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), is a 
federally authorized survey of student achievement at grades 4, 8, and 
12 in various subject areas, such as mathematics, reading, writing, 
science, U.S. history, civics, geography, economics, technology and 
engineering literacy (TEL), and the arts. The National Assessment of 
Educational Progress Authorization Act (Pub. L. 107-279 Title III, 
section 303) requires the assessment to collect data on specified 
student groups and characteristics, including information organized by 
race/ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, disability, and limited 
English proficiency. It requires fair and accurate presentation of 
achievement data and permits the collection of background, 
noncognitive, or descriptive information that is related to academic 
achievement and aids in fair reporting of results. The intent of the 
law is to provide representative sample data on student achievement for 
the nation, the states, and subpopulations of students and to monitor 
progress over time. The nature of NAEP is that burden alternates from a 
relatively low burden in national-level administration years to a 
substantial burden increase in state-level administration years when 
the sample has to allow for estimates for individual states and some of 
the large urban districts. The request to conduct NAEP 2019 and 2020 
was approved in September 2018 with the latest change request approved 
in February 2019 (OMB# 1850-0928 v.10-13). NAEP 2019 is currently 
underway. This request is to update the approved NAEP 2020 plan with: 
(1) The cancellation of all of the NAEP pilot and special studies 
originally planned for the 2019-20 school year (NAEP 2020), and (2) 
based on a Congressional request, the administration of Long Term Trend 
(LTT) assessment during the 2019-20 school year. The LTT assessments 
are based on nationally representative samples of 9-, 13-, and 17-year 
olds, and have been used by NAEP since the early 1970s to provide 
measures of students' educational progress over long time periods to 
allow for analyses of national trends in students' performance in 
mathematics and reading.
    Additional Information: In order to be able to comply with the 
Congressional request to conduct LTT during the 2019-20 school year and 
to meet the study's timeline while maintaining compliance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), due to this unanticipated event, the 
U.S. Department of Education (ED) and NCES are requesting under 44 
U.S.C. 3507(j)(1) (``emergency clearance'') to begin participant 
recruitment and study materials printing for LTT 2020 by May 2019. 
Therefore, NCES is submitting this Information Collection Request (ICR) 
to OMB utilizing emergency review procedures in accordance with the PRA 
(Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) and 5 CFR 1320.13 to announce 
revisions to the NAEP 2020 study plans and to provide for review the 
LTT 2020 plans, procedures, and materials. NCES is simultaneously 
initiating a regular clearance process for this request, including a 
60-day followed by a 30-day public comment periods.
    NCES requests that any comments on the plans, procedures, and 
materials proposed in this ICR will be submitted via Regulations.gov by 
April 16, 2019, as part of the public comment period affiliated with 
this emergency clearance. This will allow NCES to timely consider and 
address all comments related to this submission, so that upon approval 
of the ICR by OMB in April 2019, NCES can begin all participant 
recruitment activities and printing of study materials necessary to 
conduct LTT 2020.

    Dated: March 18, 2019.
Stephanie Valentine,
PRA Clearance Coordinator,Information Collection Clearance 
Program,Information Management Branch,Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-05403 Filed 3-20-19; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4000-01-P