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 United States has participated in
all of the previous cycles and is participating in 2021 in order to
track trends and to compare the performance of U.S. students with
that of students in other education systems. PISA 2021 is sponsored
by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD). In the United States, PISA is conducted by the National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES), within the U.S. Department
of Education. 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. PISA emphasizes functional skills
that students have acquired as they near the end of mandatory
schooling (aged 15 years), and students’ knowledge and skills
gained both in and out of school environments. PISA 2021 will focus
on mathematics literacy as the major domain. Reading and science
literacy will also be assessed as minor domains, with additional
assessment of financial literacy. In addition to the cognitive
assessments described above, PISA 2021 will include questionnaires
administered to school principals and assessed students. To prepare
for the main study in 2021, PISA countries will conduct a field
test in the spring of 2020, primarily to evaluate newly developed
assessment and questionnaire items but also to test the assessment
operations. The PISA 2021 field test data collection will occur in
the U.S.A. from March-April 2020 and the main study data collection
from September-November 2021. This submission requests approval
for: all recruitment and data collection activities related to the
2020 field test, and the overarching plan and recruitment of
schools for the PISA 2021 main study.
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USC 9543 Name of Law: Education Sciences Reform Act
The apparent decrease in burden
from last approval is due to the fact that the last request was to
conduct the PISA 2018 main study, while this request is to conduct
the PISA 2021 main study recruitment and field test.
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the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
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Appendix A-2 - PISA 2021 Main Study Recruitment Materials.docx
Program for International Student Assessment 2021 (PISA 2021) Main Study Recruitment and Field Test