OMB83C Change Sheet ICILS 2018 Main Study Sample Increase

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT CHANGE WORKSHEET
International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS 2018) Main Study Recruitment
Sample Increase Change Request 83C
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

1850-0929 v.3

Current Record

New Record

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1,951
1,983
62%
2,046

2,251
2,283
54%
2,871
+ 825

Difference
Explanation of difference

The increase in school, teacher, and student main
study samples sizes to improve accuracy of resulting
estimates by reducing standard errors, and to
increase the number of subgroups that can be
reported.

Program change

+ 825
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
Difference

NA
NA
NA

NA
NA
NA
NA

Explanation of difference

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NA

Program change
Adjustment
Other change**

The International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) is a computer-based international assessment of
eighth-grade students’ computer and information literacy (CIL) skills that will provide a comparison of U.S. student
performance and technology access and use with those of the international peers. ICILS is conducted by the
International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), an international collective of research
organizations and government agencies that create the assessment framework, assessment, and background
questionnaires. In the U.S., the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) conducts this study. In preparation for
the ICILS 2018 main study, NCES will conduct a field test from March through May 2017 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. The U.S. ICILS main study will be
conducted from February through May 2018. Field recruitment will begin in October 2016 and main study recruitment in
May of 2017. The request for the field test and the main study recruitment activities and the field test data collection was
approved in August 2016 (OMB# 1850-0929 v.1), with the final versions of the field test questionnaires approved
through a change request in December 2016 (OMB# 1850-0929 v.2). This request updates the approved record with an
increase in school, teacher, and student samples sizes planned for the main study to be conducted in early 2018.
Research application to special handling districts and school recruitment for the main study will begin in spring 2017.
NCES is increasing the planned main study sample sizes in order to improve accuracy of resulting estimates by
reducing standard errors, and to increase the number of subgroups that can be reported.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

For OIRA Use

January 31, 2016

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**This form cannot be used to extend an expiration date
OMB 83-C