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Request for Approval under the

“Generic Clearance for the Collection of Routine Customer Feedback”

(OMB Control Number: 1880-0542)

April 22, 2019

T ITLE OF INFORMATION COLLECTION:

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2015 National Indian Education Study (NIES) Report Focus Group

PURPOSE:

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a federally authorized survey by the National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act (20 U.S.C. §9622) 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, and the arts. NAEP is conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which is part of the Institute of Education Sciences, within the U.S. Department of Education. NAEP’s primary purpose is to assess student achievement in the different subject areas and collect survey questionnaire (i.e., non-cognitive) data from students, teachers, and principals to provide context for the reporting and interpretation of assessment results. Since 1969, NAEP has been a major part of the country’s fabric of reporting on what students know and can do and, since 1969, there has been a growing need for innovative reporting geared toward teachers and schools. The National Indian Education Study (NIES), sponsored by the Office of Indian Education (OIE), is administered as part of NAEP to allow more in-depth reporting on the achievement and experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) students in grades 4 and 8. NCES has produced NIES report(s) for each administration of the study. As part of the continuing effort to enhance the NIES reports, NCES conducted a focus group study on the NIES 2009 reports. This request is to conduct a focus group to obtain Indian education stakeholders’ feedback on the NIES 2015 Report (NCES 2017-161).

DESCRIPTION OF RESPONDENTS:

A total of 8-12 Indian education stakeholders (school administrators, teachers, school board members, tribal leaders, and/or parents from high-density public schools [25 percent or more of all the students in the school are AI/AN] and Bureau of Indian Education [BIE] schools) will be recruited from the Tenth Annual American Indian/Indigenous Teacher Education Conference (held on June 21-22, 2019) to participate in one focus group.

TYPE OF COLLECTION: (Check one)

[ ] Customer Comment Card/Complaint Form [ ] Customer Satisfaction Survey

[ ] Usability Testing (e.g., Website or Software) [ ] Small Discussion Group

[X] Focus Group [ ] Other: Respondent Feedback

CERTIFICATION:

I certify the following to be true:

1. The collection is voluntary.

2. The collection is low-burden for respondents and low-cost for the Federal Government.

3. The collection is non-controversial and does not raise issues of concern to other federal agencies.

4. The results are not intended to be disseminated to the public.

5. Information gathered will not be used for the purpose of substantially informing influential policy decisions.

6. The collection is targeted to the solicitation of opinions from respondents who have experience with the program or may have experience with the program in the future.

Name: Kashka Kubzdela ([email protected])

Personally Identifiable Information:

1. Is personally identifiable information (PII) collected? [ ] Yes [X] No

2. If Yes, is the information that will be collected included in records that are subject to the Privacy Act of 1974? [ ] Yes [X] No

3. If Applicable, has a System or Records Notice been published? [ ] Yes [ ] No

Gifts or Payments:

Is an incentive (e.g., money or reimbursement of expenses, token of appreciation) provided to participants? [X] Yes [ ] No

BURDEN HOURS

Respondent	Number of respondents	Number of responses	Hours per respondent	Total hours (rounded up)
Teacher, School Administrator and Stakeholder Recruitment
Initial contact	150	150	0.05	8
Follow-up contact (screener script)	40*	36	0.15	6
Confirmation and Consent form completion and return	12*	12	0.15	2
Preliminary review of report prior to focus group	12*	12	1.0**	12
Sub-Total	150	210	-	28
Participation (Focus Group)
Teachers	5*	5	1.5	8
School Administrators	5*	5	1.5	8
Other stakeholders	2*	2	1.5	3
Sub-Total	0*	12	-	19
Total Burden	150	222		47

* Subset of initial contact group not double counted in the total number of respondents.

** Respondents will be asked to review report prior to the focus group – anticipated time for the task is up to 60 minutes.

Note: Numbers have been rounded and therefore may affect totals.

FEDERAL COST: The estimated annual cost to the Federal government is $13,659.

The selection of your targeted respondents

1. Do you have a customer list or something similar that defines the universe of potential respondents and do you have a sampling plan for selecting from this universe? [ ] Yes [X] No

See description above, under Description of Respondents.

Administration of the Instrument

1. How will you collect the information? (Check all that apply)

[ ] Web-based or other forms of Social Media

[ ] Telephone

[X] In-person and via WebEx

[ ] Mail

[ ] Other, Explain E-mail

2. Will interviewers or facilitators be used? [X] Yes [ ] No

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