[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 88 (Monday, May 8, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29648-29649]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-09650]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No.: ED-2023-SCC-0077]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; 
Program for International Student Assessment 2025 (PISA 2025) Main 
Study Recruitment and Field Test

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, 
the Department is proposing a revision of a currently approved 
information collection request (ICR).

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
July 7, 2023.

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-2023-SCC-0077. 
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, the Department 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 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 Manager of the Strategic 
Collections and Clearance Governance and Strategy Division, U.S. 
Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, LBJ, Room 4C210, 
Washington, DC 20202-8240.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to 
collection

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activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, 202-245-6347.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department, 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. The Department is soliciting comments on the 
proposed information collection request (ICR) that is described below. 
The Department 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 
2025 (PISA 2025) Main Study Recruitment and Field Test.
    OMB Control Number: 1850-0755.
    Type of Review: A revision of a currently approved ICR.
    Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals and Households.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 58,672.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 18,909.
    Abstract: The Program for International Student Assessments (PISA) 
is an international assessment of 15-year-olds, which focuses on 
assessing students' reading, mathematics, and science literacy. PISA 
was first administered in 2000 and is typically conducted every three 
years. The United States has participated in all of the previous cycles 
and planned to participate in 2021 in order to track trends and to 
compare the performance of U.S. students with that of students in other 
education systems. PISA is sponsored by the Organization for Economic 
Cooperation and Development (OECD). In the United States, PISA is 
conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 
within the U.S. Department of Education.
    In each administration of PISA, one of the subject areas (reading, 
mathematics, or science literacy) is the major domain and has the 
broadest content coverage, while the other two subjects are the minor 
domains. PISA emphasizes functional skills that students have acquired 
as they near the end of mandatory schooling (aged 15 years), and 
students' knowledge and skills gained both in and out of school 
environments. Other areas may also be assessed, such as, in the case of 
PISA 2025, Learning in a Digital World (LDW), which will be an 
innovative domain in 2025. PISA assesses students' knowledge and skills 
gained both in and out of school environments. In addition to the 
cognitive assessments described above, PISA 2025 will include 
questionnaires administered to school principals and assessed students. 
To prepare for the main study, PISA countries will conduct a field test 
in the spring of the year previous, primarily to evaluate newly 
developed assessment and questionnaire items but also to test the 
assessment operations.
    This request is to conduct PISA 2025 main study recruitment and the 
PISA 2025 field test. This submission requests all burden for both the 
field test (scheduled for early 2024) and the main study (scheduled for 
late 2025), and presents materials (including recruitment and 
communications materials) and the final international drafts of the 
field test instruments. As part of this submission, NCES is publishing 
a notice in the Federal Register allowing first a 60- and then a 30-day 
public comment period. We anticipate that some materials will be 
revised after the 60-day public comment period and encourage 
stakeholders to see individual documents for details. The materials 
that will be used in the 2025 main study will be based upon the field 
test materials included in this submission. Additionally, this 
submission is designed to adequately justify the need for and overall 
practical utility of the full study and to present the overarching plan 
for all of the phases of the data collection, providing as much detail 
about the measures to be used as is available at the time of this 
submission.
    We plan to submit a revision (along with a 30-day public comment 
period) in October 2023 in order to clear the final US version of the 
field test instrument, as well as finalize any updated materials for 
use in the 2024 field test. In order to begin recruiting schools for 
the main study by October 2024, we will submit a change-request to OMB 
in May 2024 with the final main study recruitment materials and 
parental consent letters, details about any changes to the design and 
procedures for the main study, and updates to the respondent burden 
estimates for the main study data collection. Subsequently in spring 
2025 we will submit a clearance request, with a 30-day public comment 
period notice published in the Federal Register, with the final main 
study procedures and instruments for data collection in the fall of 
2025.

    Dated: May 2, 2023.
Stephanie Valentine,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance, Governance and 
Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning, 
Evaluation and Policy Development.
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