Program for International
Student Assessment 2025 (PISA 2025) Main Study Recruitment and
Field Test
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
07/31/2023
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
04/30/2025
58,672
11,728
18,903
5,691
0
0
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
typically conducted every three years. The United States has
participated in all of the previous cycles and planned to
participate 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 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. Other areas may also be assessed, such as,
in the case of PISA 2025, Learning in a Digital World (LDW), which
will be an innovative domain in 2025. PISA assesses students’
knowledge and skills gained both in and out of school environments.
In addition to the cognitive assessments described above, PISA 2025
will include questionnaires administered to school principals and
assessed students. To prepare for the main study, PISA countries
will conduct a field test in the spring of the year previous,
primarily to evaluate newly developed assessment and questionnaire
items but also to test the assessment operations. This request is
to conduct PISA 2025 main study recruitment and the PISA 2025 field
test. This submission requests all burden for both the field test
(scheduled for early 2024) and the main study (scheduled for late
2025), and presents materials (including recruitment and
communications materials) and the final international drafts of the
field test instruments. As part of this submission, NCES is
publishing a notice in the Federal Register allowing first a 60-
and then a 30-day public comment period. We anticipate that some
materials will be revised after the 60-day public comment period
and encourage stakeholders to see individual documents for details.
The materials that will be used in the 2025 main study will be
based upon the field test materials included in this submission.
Additionally, this submission is designed to adequately justify the
need for and overall practical utility of the full study and to
present the overarching plan for all of the phases of the data
collection, providing as much detail about the measures to be used
as is available at the time of this submission. We plan to submit a
revision (along with a 30-day public comment period) in October
2023 in order to clear the final US version of the field test
instrument, as well as finalize any updated materials for use in
the 2024 field test. In order to begin recruiting schools for the
main study by October 2024, we will submit a change-request to OMB
in May 2024 with the final main study recruitment materials and
parental consent letters, details about any changes to the design
and procedures for the main study, and updates to the respondent
burden estimates for the main study data collection. Subsequently
in spring 2025 we will submit a clearance request, with a 30-day
public comment period notice published in the Federal Register,
with the final main study procedures and instruments for data
collection in the fall of 2025.
US Code:
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USC 9573 Name of Law: Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
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).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Appendix B-2 - PISA 2025 Recruitment & Main Study Parental Contact Materials v28 30D.docx
Program for International Student Assessment 2025 (PISA 2025) Main Study Recruitment and Field Test