OMB83C Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGE WORKSHEET
Program for International Student Assessment (PISA 2018) Field Test Questionnaires Change
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Agency/Subagency

OMB Control Number

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences

1850-0755 v.19

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We are announcing a second 30-day comment period for the Program for International Student Assessments (PISA)
2017 Field Test to include additional survey items in the field test questionnaires, as recently stipulated by the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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
conducted every three years. The United States has participated in all of the previous cycles, and will participate in 2018
in order to track trends and to compare the performance of U.S. students with that of students in other education
systems. PISA 2018 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. PISA 2018 will focus on reading
literacy as the major domain. Mathematics and science literacy will also be assessed as minor domains, with additional
assessments of global competence and financial literacy. In addition to the cognitive assessments described above,
PISA 2018 will include questionnaires administered to assessed students, school principals, and teachers. To prepare
for the main study in 2018, NCES will conduct a PISA field test from April-May 2017 to evaluate newly developed
assessment and questionnaire items, to test the assessment operations, and to test school recruitment, data collection,
and data management procedures. The PISA main study will be conducted in the U.S. from September-November
2018. This submission requests approval for: recruitment and pre-assessment activities for the 2017 field test sample;
administration of the field test; and recruitment of schools for the 2018 main study sample.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

September 13, 2016

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