OMB83C Change Sheet v8

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT CHANGE WORKSHEET
International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS 2018) Main Study Incentives 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.8

Current Record

New Record

NA

NA

15,842
15,842
85%
9,451

15,842
15,842
85%
9,451
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 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 their international peers. ICILS collects data on eighth-grade
students’ abilities to collect, manage, evaluate, and share digital information; their understanding of issues related to the
safe and responsible use of electronic information; on student access to, use of, and engagement with ICT at school and
at home; school environments for teaching and learning CIL; and teacher practices and experiences with ICT. The data
collected through ICILS will also provide information about the nature and extent of the possible “digital divide” and has
the potential to inform understanding of the relationship between technology skills and experience and student
performance in other core subject areas. ICILS 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, assessment, 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 ICILS. In preparation for the ICILS 2018 main study, NCES conducted a field test from May through June 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. Recruitment for
the main study began in May of 2017. The request to conduct the ICILS main study data collection in the United States
from March through May 2018 was approved in December 2017 with a change request that provided the final versions
of the questionnaires approved in January 2018 (OMB# 1850-0929 v.6-7). This request is to implement the strategy
used in other international studies of a second-tier school incentive plus a new second-tier teacher incentive designed to
help meet the response rates required for inclusion in international comparisons.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

For OIRA Use

April 11, 2018

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