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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 11 (Friday, January 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5844-5845]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01202]

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No.: ED-2025-SCC-0006]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Program for International Student Assessment 2025 (PISA 2025) 
Main Study

AGENCY: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Department of 
Education (ED).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, 
the Department is proposing a revision of a currently approved 
information collection request (ICR).

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
February 18, 2025.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for proposed 
information collection requests should be submitted within 30 days of 
publication of this notice. Click on this link www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain to access the site. Find this information collection request 
(ICR) by selecting ``Department of Education'' under ``Currently Under 
Review,'' then check the ``Only Show ICR for Public Comment'' checkbox. 
Reginfo.gov provides two links to view documents related to this 
information collection request. Information collection forms and 
instructions may be found by clicking on the ``View Information 
Collection (IC) List'' link. Supporting statements and other supporting 
documentation may be found by clicking on the ``View Supporting 
Statement and Other Documents'' link.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to 
collection

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activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, 202-245-6347.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department 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: Program for International Student Assessment 
2025 (PISA 2025) Main Study.
    OMB Control Number: 1850-0755.
    Type of Review: A revision of a currently approved ICR.
    Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals and Households. Total 
Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 59,087.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 19,041.
    Abstract: 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 
ninth cycle of the study, PISA 2025, is being administered at a time 
when interest is increasing, both worldwide and in the United States, 
in how well schools are preparing students to meet the challenges of 
the future, and how the students perform compared with their peers in 
other education systems of the world. Approximately 85 education 
systems, including the U.S., are expected to participate in 2025. The 
U.S. has participated in all previous cycles and is participating in 
2025 in order to track trends and to compare the performance of U.S. 
students with that in other education systems. PISA 2025 is sponsored 
by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In 
the U.S., PISA 2025 is conducted by the National Center for Education 
Statistics (NCES) of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. 
Department of Education. PISA is a collaboration among the 
participating countries, the OECD, and a group of international 
organizations each under contract to the OECD (hereafter referred to as 
the PISA International Consortium).
    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. Science literacy will be the major domain in PISA 2025. Other 
areas may also be assessed, such as, in the case of PISA 2025, Learning 
in a Digital World (LDW), which will be an innovative domain in 2025. 
PISA assesses students' knowledge and skills gained both in and out of 
school environments. The focus on the ``yield'' of education in and out 
of school makes it different from other international assessments such 
as the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 
and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), which 
are closely tied to school curriculum frameworks and assess younger and 
grade-based populations.
    Like previous rounds of PISA in 2015, 2018, and 2022, in PISA 2025 
the entire assessment and the questionnaires will be administered on 
computer. In addition to the cognitive assessments, PISA 2025 will 
include questionnaires administered to school principals and assessed 
students. The school questionnaire will be delivered online. The school 
and student questionnaires are core components of PISA and as such are 
required for all participating countries. The teacher questionnaire, 
which is optional and was administered in previous rounds (2015 and 
2018), will not be administered in 2025 because the U.S. has deemed the 
resulting data inadequate for analyses due to the lack of weights for 
the teacher data.
    To prepare for the main study in 2025, PISA countries conducted a 
field test in the spring of 2024, primarily to evaluate newly developed 
assessment and questionnaire items but also to test the assessment 
operations. The PISA 2025 field test data collection occurred in the 
U.S.A. March-April 2024 and the main study data collection will take 
place September-November 2025. This submission requests approval for 
all final materials associated with recruitment and data collection 
activities related to the PISA 2025 main study and is accompanied by a 
notice published in the Federal Register allowing a 30-day public 
comment period on the final details of the PISA 2025 main study data 
collection. In order to conduct the main study by March 2025, we are 
submitting this 30D revision with the final main study student video 
(Appendix A-2) and final school and student questionnaires (Appendix C-
2), as well as refined details about changes to the design and 
procedures for the main study (Parts A & B).

    Dated: January 14, 2025.
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. 2025-01202 Filed 1-16-25; 8:45 am]
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