OMB83C Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT CHANGE WORKSHEET
International Early Learning Study (IELS) 2018 Field Test Data Collection and Main Study
Recruitment Change Request
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.4

Current Record

New Record

NA

NA

5,899
6,375
6%
2,595

5,899
6,375
6%
2,595
0

Difference
Explanation of difference
Program change

0
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 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 and 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, or in the early stages of primary school. In 2018, in the
participating countries, including the United States, the IELS will assess nationally-representative samples of 5-year-old
children enrolled in public and private schools that offer 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 noncognitive 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 October-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 November to December, 2017, with
respondent recruitment beginning in early September 2017. The request to conduct 2017 IELS field test data collection
as well as recruitment for the IELS 2018 main study was approved in September 2017 (OMB# 1850-0936 v.3). This
request is to revise the incentive distribution strategy, provide finalized field test parent and teacher questionnaires, and
provide finalized communication materials.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

For OIRA Use

September 4, 2017

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**This form cannot be used to extend an expiration date
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