Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 41 / Wednesday, March 2, 2022 / Notices 11699 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: ED–2022–SCC–0027] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

National Assessment of Educational 

Progress (NAEP) 2022 Materials 

Update #3 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences 

(IES), Department of Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is 

proposing a revision of a currently 

approved information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before April 1, 

2022. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for proposed 

information collection requests should 

be sent within 30 days of publication of 

this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/ 

do/PRAMain. Find this information 

collection request by selecting 

‘‘Department of Education’’ under 

‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ then check 

‘‘Only Show ICR for Public Comment’’ 

checkbox. Comments may also be sent 

to ICDocketmgr@ed.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, 

(202) 245–6347. 

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: National 

Assessment of Educational Progress 

(NAEP) 2022 Materials Update #3. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–0928. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals or Households. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 710,917. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 431,269. 

Abstract: The National Assessment of 

Educational Progress (NAEP), 

conducted by the National Center for 

Education Statistics (NCES), is a 

federally authorized survey of student 

achievement at grades 4, 8, and 12 in 

various subject areas, such as 

mathematics, reading, writing, science, 

U.S. history, civics, geography, 

economics, technology and engineering 

literacy (TEL), and the arts. The 

National Assessment of Educational 

Progress Authorization Act (Pub. L. 

107–279 Title III, section 303) requires 

the assessment to collect data on 

specified student groups and 

characteristics, including information 

organized by race/ethnicity, gender, 

socio-economic status, disability, and 

limited English proficiency. It requires 

fair and accurate presentation of 

achievement data and permits the 

collection of background, noncognitive, 

or descriptive information that is related 

to academic achievement and aids in 

fair reporting of results. The intent of 

the law is to provide representative 

sample data on student achievement for 

the nation, the states, and 

subpopulations of students and to 

monitor progress over time. NAEP 

consists of two assessment programs: 

The NAEP long-term trend (LTT) 

assessment and the main NAEP 

assessment. The LTT assessments are 

given at the national level only and are 

administered to students at ages 9, 13, 

and 17 in a manner that is very different 

from that used for the main NAEP 

assessments. LTT reports mathematics 

and reading results that present trend 

data since the 1970s. 

The request to conduct NAEP 2021, 

including operational assessments and 

pilot tests: Operational national/state/ 

TUDA Digitally Based Assessments 

(DBA) in mathematics and reading at 

grades 4 and 8, and Puerto Rico in 

mathematics at grades 4 and 8; and 

operational national DBA in U.S. history 

and civics at grade 8 was approved in 

April 2020, with further updates to the 

materials approved in July and 

November 2020. Throughout 2020 NCES 

worked with its contractors and with 

OMB to find the best way to plan for a 

data collection in schools in 2021, and 

as the coronavirus pandemic progressed 

over the course of the year, plans for 

NAEP 2020 data collection changed 

multiple times. In November 2020, the 

NCES Commissioner announced the 

delay of NAEP 2021 by one year to early 

2022. 

Since then, NAEP has continued to 

work to salvage any pieces of their data 

collection plans for 2021 and begin 

planning for NAEP 2022. NCES has 

used the drawn and notified sample 

from 2021 for two data collections that 

don’t include the student assessment 

that is central to the NAEP program, 

instead using that sample to collect 

information about basic school 

operations during the coronavirus 

pandemic (NAEP 2021 School Survey; 

OMB# 1850–0957) and the experiences 

of teachers and school staff over the 

2019–2020 and 2020–2021 school years 

(NAEP 2021 School and Teacher 

Questionnaire Special Study; OMB# 

1850–0956). 

The request to conduct NAEP 

operational assessments in 2022, which 

will follow the traditional NAEP design 

which assesses each student in 60- 

minutes for one cognitive subject, was 

approved in May 2021, and the first and 

second updates to the NAEP 2022 

materials were approved in August and 

October 2021. The 2022 data collection 

will consist of operational national/ 

state/TUDA DBA in mathematics and 

reading at grades 4 and 8, and Puerto 

Rico in mathematics at grades 4 and 8; 

and operational national DBA in U.S. 

history and civics at grade 8. In 

November 2021, the National 

Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) 

decided that in addition to the 

previously approved administration of 

LTT9 in Spring 2022, NAEP will also readminister LTT Age 13 in Fall 2022, 

which will assess 13-year-old students 

and also include additional survey 

questionnaires to students and school 

administrators related to the COVID–19 

outbreak. This submission contains all 

materials for the administration of the 

LTT Age 13 in Fall 2022. 


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11700 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 41 / Wednesday, March 2, 2022 / Notices 

1https://www.ferc.gov/industries-data/electric/ 

power-sales-and-markets/increasing-efficiencythrough-improved-software. 

2Electric Transmission Incentives Policy under 

Section 219 of the Federal Power Act, Docket No. 

AD19–19–000. 

3 Managing Transmission Line Ratings, Docket 

No. AD19–15–000. 

4 Managing Transmission Line Ratings, Order No. 

881, 177 FERC ¶ 61,179 (2021). 

5The attendee registration form is located at 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SHFLFKV. 6The speaker nomination form is located at 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/S3M89MK. 

Dated: February 25, 2022. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of 

Planning, Evaluation and Policy 

Development. 

[FR Doc. 2022–04360 Filed 3–1–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD10–12–013] 

Increasing Market and Planning 

Efficiency Through Improved Software; 

Notice of Technical Conference: 

Increasing Real-Time and Day-Ahead 

Market and Planning Efficiency 

Through Improved Software 

Take notice that Commission staff 

will convene a technical conference on 

June 21, 22, and 23, 2022 to discuss 

opportunities for increasing real-time 

and day-ahead market efficiency of the 

bulk power system through improved 

software. A detailed agenda with the list 

of and times for the selected speakers 

will be published on the Commission’s 

website 1 and in eLibrary after May 20, 

2022. 

This conference will bring together 

and encourage discussion between 

experts from diverse backgrounds, 

including electric power system 

operators, software developers, and 

professionals from government, research 

centers, and academia. The conference 

will bring these experts together for the 

purposes of stimulating discussion, 

sharing information, and identifying 

fruitful avenues for research on 

improving software for increased 

efficiency and reliability of the bulk 

power system. 

This conference will build on 

discussions at prior conferences in this 

proceeding by focusing on topics 

identified as important to market 

efficiency in those conferences. Broadly, 

such topics fall into the following 

categories: 

(1) Software for better modeling and 

computation of storage resources and 

distributed energy resources (DERs), 

especially software that addresses 

challenges such resources pose to 

current market-clearing and dispatch 

algorithms. 

(2) Software advances to help with the 

transition to increased use of 

probabilistic models in system 

planning, whether scenario-based or 

stochastic, to better account lowprobability, high-impact events, such as 

extreme weather events, which are 

increasingly common. 

(3) Improvements to the ability to 

identify and use flexibility in the 

existing systems in ways that improve 

bulk power system reliability and 

economic efficiency, including 

transmission constraint relaxation 

practices, ramp management, and 

improving resources’ responsiveness to 

dispatch instructions. 

(4) Representations of uncertainty that 

increase market efficiency and lead to 

better understanding of events that 

could impact reliability of the bulk 

power system, including: 15-Minute 

unit-commitment and day-ahead market 

intervals; stochastic modeling; software 

for forecasting and enhancing visibility 

into changing system conditions; 

improved modeling approaches to 

energy and reserve dispatch; and 

software for managing uncertainties in 

variable energy resource output. 

(5) Software related to grid-enhancing 

technologies, such as those described in 

Docket Nos. AD19–19 2 and AD19–15,3

including optimal transmission 

switching, dynamic transmission line 

ratings, power flow controls, and any 

software related to implementing the 

Commission’s recent rulemaking 

regarding line ratings in Order No. 881.4

(6) Software for better modeling and 

computation of resources with distinct 

operating characteristics such as storage 

resources, multi-stage/multiconfiguration resources, hybrid 

resources, aggregations of DERs, and 

others. Presentations on this topic 

should focus on alternative formulations 

and solution methods for market 

models. 

(7) Improvements to the 

representation of physical constraints 

that are either not currently modeled or 

currently modeled using mathematical 

approximations, including voltage and 

reactive power constraints, stability 

constraints, fuel delivery constraints, 

and constraints related to contingencies. 

(8) Software that enables the 

calculation of prices that better reflect 

costs of operation and that provide 

better incentives for efficient market 

entry and market exit. 

(9) Other improvements in algorithms, 

model formulations, or hardware that 

may allow for increases in market 

efficiency and enhanced bulk power 

system reliability. 

Within these or related topics, we 

encourage presentations that discuss 

modeling best practices, existing 

modeling practices that need 

improvement, any modeling advances 

newly achieved, or perspectives on 

increasing market efficiency through 

improved power systems modeling. 

The conference will take place 

virtually via WebEx, with remote 

participation from both presenters and 

attendees. Further details on remote 

attendance and participation will be 

released prior to the conference. 

Attendees must register through the 

Commission’s website on or before June 

10, 2022.5 WebEx connections may not 

be available to those who do not 

register. 

Speaker nominations must be 

submitted on or before April 22, 2022 

through the Commission’s website 6 by 

providing the proposed speaker’s 

contact information along with a title, 

abstract, and list of contributing authors 

for the proposed presentation. Proposed 

presentations should be related to the 

topics discussed above. Speakers and 

presentations will be selected to ensure 

relevant topics and to accommodate 

time constraints. 

The Commission will accept 

comments following the conference, 

with a deadline of July 29, 2022. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on 

the Commission’s website that enables 

subscribers to receive email notification 

when a document is added to a 

subscribed docket(s). For assistance 

with any FERC Online service, please 

email FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or 

call (866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, 

call (202) 502–8659. 

FERC conferences are accessible 

under section 508 of the Rehabilitation 

Act of 1973. For accessibility 

accommodations please send an email 

to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free 

(866) 208–3372 (voice) or (202) 502– 

8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208– 

2106 with the required 

accommodations. This notice is issued 

and published in accordance with 18 

CFR 2.1. 

For further information about these 

conferences, please contact: 

Sarah McKinley (Logistical 

Information), Office of External 

Affairs, (202) 502–8004, 

Sarah.McKinley@ferc.gov. 

Alexander Smith (Technical 

Information), Office of Energy Policy 


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