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mission and topics pertaining to this 

public meeting. 

Written comments should be received 

by the DFO at least five (5) business 

days prior to the meeting date so that 

the comments may be made available to 

the Board for their consideration prior 

to the meeting. Written comments 

should be submitted via email to the 

address for the DFO given in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 

in either Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft 

Word format. 

The public will be offered an 

opportunity for oral comments during 

the public session as time permits. 

Please note that since the Board 

operates under the provisions of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, all submitted comments and 

public presentations will be treated as 

public documents and will be made 

available for public inspection, 

including, but not limited to, being 

posted on the Board’s Web site. 

Dated: June 26, 2014. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No. ED–2014–ICCD–0101] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; 

Progress in International Reading 

Literacy Study (PIRLS 2016) Field Test 

and Recruitment for Main Study 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences, 

National Center for Education Statistics 

(IES–NCES), Department of Education 

(ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is 

proposing a reinstatement without 

change of an existing information 

collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

September 2, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in 

response to this notice should be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov by selecting 

Docket ID number ED–2014–ICCD–0101 

or via postal mail, commercial delivery, 

or hand delivery. If the regulations.gov 

site is not available to the public for any 

reason, ED will temporarily accept 

comments at ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. 

Please note that comments submitted by 

fax or email and those submitted after 

the comment period will not be 

accepted; ED will only accept comments 

during the comment period in this 

mailbox when the regulations.gov site is 

not available. Written requests for 

information or comments submitted by 

postal mail or delivery should be 

addressed to the Director of the 

Information Collection Clearance 

Division, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, 

Mailstop L–OM–2–2E319, Room 2E105, 

Washington, DC 20202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Kashka 

Kubdzela, 202–502–7411. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Education (ED), in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general 

public and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed, 

revised, and continuing collections of 

information. This helps the Department 

assess the impact of its information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. ED is 

soliciting comments on the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) that 

is described below. The Department of 

Education is especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) Is this collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

Department; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the Department enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: Progress in 

International Reading Literacy Study 

(PIRLS 2016) Field Test and 

Recruitment for Main Study. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–0645. 

Type of Review: A reinstatement 

without change of an existing 

information collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals or households. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 1,919. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 5,142. 

Abstract: The Progress in 

International Reading Literacy Study 

(PIRLS) 2016 is coordinated by the 

International Association for the 

Evaluation of Educational Achievement 

(IEA) and in the U.S. administered by 

the National Center for Education 

Statistics (NCES). Since its inception in 

2001, PIRLS has continued to assess 

students every five years (2001, 2006, 

2011, 2016). It is administered in more 

than 40 countries and provides data for 

internationally benchmarking U.S. 

performance in fourth-grade reading. 

PIRLS also collects background 

information on students, teachers, 

schools, curricula, and official 

education policies. Each successive 

participation in PIRLS provides trend 

information about U.S. 4th-grade 

students’ knowledge and abilities in 

reading relative to other countries, and 

about the cultural environments, 

teaching practices, curriculum goals, 

and institutional arrangements that are 

associated with student achievement, 

and how these change over time in 

different countries. This submission 

describes the overarching plan for all 

phases of the data collection, including 

the field test and the main study. The 

field test will take place in March– 

April, 2015, and the main study will 

take place in March–April, 2016. The 

purpose of the PIRLS field test is 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. This 

submission requests approval for 

recruiting for the 2015 field test and 

2016 main study; conducting the 2015 

field test data collection; and a 

description of the overarching plan for 

all of the phases of the data collection, 

including the 2016 main study. 

Dated: June 26, 2014. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

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