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
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 given that OECD now made it part of
the ESO being used by this study. 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).
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USC 9543 Name of Law: Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.