[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 145 (Monday, July 31, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49457-49458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-16179]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

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


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; 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 
August 30, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for proposed 
information collection requests should be submitted within 30 days of 
publication of this notice. Click on this link www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain to access the site. Find this information collection request 
(ICR) by selecting ``Department of Education'' under ``Currently Under 
Review,'' then check the ``Only Show ICR for Public Comment'' checkbox. 
Reginfo.gov provides two links to view documents related to this 
information collection request. Information collection forms and 
instructions may be found by clicking on the ``View Information 
Collection (IC) List'' link. Supporting statements and other supporting 
documentation may be found by clicking on the ``View Supporting 
Statement and Other Documents'' link.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to 
collection activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, 202-245-6347.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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: 18,903.
    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

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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: July 26, 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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