OMB83C Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT CHANGE WORKSHEET
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS 2019) Field Test Recruitment
Confidentiality Pledge 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

1850-0695 v.9

Current Record

New Record

NA

NA

6,594
8,594
59%
2,190

6,594
8,594
59%
2,190
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 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is an international assessment of fourth and eighth
grade students’ achievement in mathematics and science. Since its inception in 1995, TIMSS has continued to assess
students every 4 years, with the next TIMSS assessment, TIMSS 2019, being the seventh iteration of the study. TIMSS
provides a comparison of U.S. student performance with those of their international peers in mathematics and science at
grades 4 and 8. TIMSS is coordinated by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement
(IEA), an international collective of research organizations and government agencies that creates the assessment
framework, assessments, and background questionnaires and provides procedures and technical standards which all
countries must follow. In the U.S., the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) conducts TIMSS. In preparation
for the TIMSS 2019 main study, NCES is conducting a pilot data collection in Spring 2017, and will conduct a field test in
2018 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. TIMSS field test recruitment will begin in May 2017, with data collection conducted from March through April 2018,
and the U.S. TIMSS main study recruitment will begin in May 2018, with data collection conducted from March through
May 2019. The request for field test recruitment and pilot test data collection was approved in December 2016 (OMB#
1850-0695 v.8). This request is to update the confidentiality pledge cited as part of TIMSS to account for the
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, and to cite additional data security and confidentiality requirements.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

For OIRA Use

April 20, 2017

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