OMB83 C Worksheet - ICILS Field Test Timeline & Incentives

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT CHANGE WORKSHEET
International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS 2018) Field Test Timeline and
Incentives 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.4

Current Record

New Record

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NA

2,251
2,283
54%
2,871

2,251
2,283
54%
2,871
0

Difference
Explanation of difference
Program change

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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

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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 their international peers. ICILS is coordinated by the
International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), an international collective of research
organizations and government agencies that creates the assessment framework, assessment, and background
questionnaires and provides procedures and technical standards which all countries must follow. In the U.S., the
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) conducts ICILS. In preparation for the ICILS 2018 main study, in 2017,
NCES will conduct a field test 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 from February through May 2018. The request for
the field test and the main study recruitment activities and the field test data collection was approved in August 2016
(OMB# 1850-0929 v.1), with the final versions of the field test questionnaires approved through a change request in
December 2016 (OMB# 1850-0929 v.2), and a main study sample size increase approved in February 2017 (OMB#
1850-0929 v.3). This request is to: 1) change the field test data collection timeline, 2) update the confidentiality pledge
cited as part of ICILS to account for the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, and 3) cite additional data security and
confidentiality requirements.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

For OIRA Use

March 30, 2017

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