OMB83C ICILS 2018 FT Questionnaire Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT CHANGE WORKSHEET
International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS 2018) Field Test Questionnaires
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

1850-0929 v.2

Current Record

New Record

NA

NA

1,951
1,983
62%
2,041

1,951
1,983
100%
2,046
+5

Difference
Explanation of difference

NCES is cancelling most of the planned data
collection due to low school participation rates.

Program change

+5
0

Adjustment
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

NA
NA
NA

Difference

NA
NA
NA
NA

Explanation of difference

NA
NA

Program change
Adjustment
Other change**

The International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) is a computer-based international assessment of
eighth-grade students’ computer and information literacy (CIL) skills that will provide a comparison of U.S. student
performance and technology access and use with those of the international peers. ICILS collects data on eighth-grade
students’ abilities to collect, manage, evaluate, and share digital information; their understanding of issues related to the
safe and responsible use of electronic information; on student access to, use of, and engagement with ICT at school and
at home; school environments for teaching and learning CIL; and teacher practices and experiences with ICT. The data
collected through ICILS will also provide information about the nature and extent of the possible “digital divide” and has
the potential to inform understanding of the relationship between technology skills and experience and student
performance in other core subject areas. ICILS is conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of
Educational Achievement (IEA), an international collective of research organizations and government agencies that
create the assessment framework, assessment, and background questionnaires. In the U.S., the National Center for
Education Statistics (NCES) conducts this study. In preparation for the ICILS 2018 main study, NCES will conduct a field
test from March through May 2017 to evaluate new assessment items and background questions, to ensure practices
that promote low exclusion rates, and to ensure that classroom and student sampling procedures proposed for the main
study are successful. The U.S. ICILS main study will be conducted in the spring of 2018. Field recruitment will begin in
October 2016 and main study recruitment in May of 2017. The request for the 2017 field test and the 2018 main study
recruitment activities and the 2017 field test data collection was approved in August 2016 (OMB# 1850-0929 v.1). This
request (a) amends the approved record with the versions of the ICILS 2018 field test questionnaires that contain the
finalized international versions of the questionnaires along with the U.S. adaptations that have been submitted for
approval to the IEA, (b) updates respondent burden estimates, and (c) updates the international assessment framework
for distribution and naming of dimensions.
Because a few new questionnaire items have been added and burden time slightly increased, NCES is announcing in
the Federal Register another 30-day public comment period to accompany this change request.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

For OIRA Use

December 8, 2016

_________________________________
_________________________________

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