OMB83C Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT CHANGE WORKSHEET
International Early Learning Study (IELS) 2018 Field Test Recruitment Confidentiality Pledge
Change Request 83C
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES),
Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
Agency/Subagency

Enter only items that change
Agency form number(s)
Annual reporting and record keeping hour burden
Number of respondent
Total annual responses
% responses collected electronically
Total annual hours

OMB Control Number

1850-0936 v.2

Current Record

New Record

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618
618
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234

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618
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234
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Program change

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0

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Annual reporting and record keeping cost burden
(in thousands of dollars)
Total annualized capital/startup costs
Total annual costs (O&M)
Total annualized cost requested

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NA

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Other change**

The International Early Learning Study (IELS), scheduled to be conducted in 2018, is a new study sponsored by the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental organization of industrialized
countries. In the United States, the IELS is conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The IELS
focuses on young children and their cognitive and non-cognitive skills and competencies as they transition to primary
school. The IELS is designed to examine: children’s early learning and development in a broad range of domains,
including social emotional skills as well as cognitive skills; the relationship between children’s early learning and
children’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC); the role of contextual factors, including children’s
individual characteristics and their home backgrounds and experiences, in promoting young children’s growth and
development; and how early learning varies across and within countries prior to beginning primary school. In 2018, in
the participating countries, including the United States, the IELS will assess nationally-representative samples of
children ages 5.0-5.5 years (in kindergarten in the United States) through direct and indirect measures, and will collect
contextual data about their home learning environments, ECEC histories, and demographic characteristics. The IELS
will measure young children’s knowledge, skills, and competencies in both cognitive and non-cognitive domains,
including language and literacy, mathematics and numeracy, executive function/self-regulation, and social emotional
skills. This assessment will take place as children are transitioning to primary school and will provide data on how U.S.
children entering kindergarten compare with their international peers on skills deemed important for later success. To
prepare for the main study that will take place in September-November 2018, the IELS countries will conduct a field test
in the fall of 2017 to evaluate newly developed assessment instruments and questionnaires and to test the study
operations. The U.S. IELS field test data collection will occur from September to October, 2017. In order to meet the
international data collection schedule for the fall 2017 field test, field test respondent recruiting activities must begin by
May 2017. The request is to conduct recruitment activities for the 2017 IELS field test was approved in April 2017 (18500936 v.2). This request is to update the confidentiality pledge cited as part of IELS to account for the Cybersecurity
Enhancement Act of 2015 and to cite additional data security & confidentiality requirements.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

For OIRA Use

April 13, 2017

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**This form cannot be used to extend an expiration date
OMB 83-C