National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2024 Amendment #4
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
Approved without change
02/27/2024
01/18/2024
table that charts list comparision
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
02/28/2027
36 Months From Approved
10/31/2026
860,132
0
860,132
474,255
0
470,250
0
0
0
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), is a federally authorized survey 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, technology and engineering literacy (TEL), and the arts. The National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act (Public Law 107-279 Title III, section 303) requires the assessment to collect data on specified student groups and characteristics, including information organized by race/ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, disability, and limited English proficiency. It requires fair and accurate presentation of achievement data and permits the collection of background, noncognitive, or descriptive information that is related to academic achievement and aids in fair reporting of results. The intent of the law is to provide representative sample data on student achievement for the nation, the states, and subpopulations of students and to monitor progress over time. NAEP consists of two assessment programs: the NAEP long-term trend (LTT) assessment and the main NAEP assessment. The LTT assessments are given at the national level only and are administered to students at ages 9, 13, and 17 in a manner that is very different from that used for the main NAEP assessments. LTT reports mathematics and reading results that present trend data since the 1970s. In addition to the operational assessments, NAEP uses two other kinds of assessment activities: pilot assessments and special studies. Pilot assessments test items and procedures for future administrations of NAEP, while special studies (including the National Indian Education Study (NIES), the Middle School Transcript Study (MSTS), and the High School Transcript Study (HSTS)) are opportunities for NAEP to investigate particular aspects of the assessment without impacting the reporting of the NAEP results.
The initial request for clearance of NAEP 2024 received OMB approval in April 2023 (OMB# 1850-0928 v.28). Amendment #1 to the NAEP 2024 clearance package received OMB approval in June 2023 (OMB#1850-0928 v.29), Amendment #2 was approved in August 2023, and Amendment #3 was approved in November 2023. Since November 2023, NCES made the decision to make adjustments to the school-based equipment survey and increased the estimated burden from 5 minutes to 10 minutes. A technology roles survey was also added that will be completed by the school or district technology coordinator and will require 10 minutes of burden time. These changes required increases to the total estimated burden between Amendment #3 (470,250 hours) and Amendment #4 (474,255 hours).
This revision provides minor updates Part A to detail these changes in the the burden table, as well as other small changes to bring Part A up to date. It also adds a revised draft of the school-based equipment survey, adds a brief survey for the school or district technology coordinator, and adds Spanish versions of both of those surveys. There is no change in the projected costs to the federal government.
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Pub.L. 107 - 279 303
Name of Law: National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act
NCES has revised the previously approved School Technology Resources survey and has recalculated the burden to complete it to be 10 minutes. Additionally, a new survey called the District Technology Tasks and Policy survey will be completed by the school or district technology coordinator, which is estimated to require 10 minutes to complete. These updates result in an increase in burden hours between Amendment #3 (470,250 hours) and Amendment #4 (474,255 hours).
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.
NAEP 2024 Change Memo v34.docx
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2024