Program for International
Student Assessment 2025 (PISA 2025) Main Study
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
01/17/2025
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
09/30/2026
59,087
58,672
19,041
18,903
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
conducted every three years. The ninth cycle of the study, PISA
2025, is being administered at a time when interest is increasing,
both worldwide and in the United States, in how well schools are
preparing students to meet the challenges of the future, and how
the students perform compared with their peers in other education
systems of the world. Approximately 85 education systems, including
the U.S., are expected to participate in 2025. The U.S. has
participated in all previous cycles and is participating in 2025 in
order to track trends and to compare the performance of U.S.
students with that in other education systems. PISA 2025 is
sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD). In the U.S., PISA 2025 is conducted by the
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the Institute of
Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of Education. PISA is a
collaboration among the participating countries, the OECD, and a
group of international organizations each under contract to the
OECD (hereafter referred to as the PISA International Consortium).
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. Science literacy will be the major domain in PISA
2025. 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. The focus on
the “yield” of education in and out of school makes it different
from other international assessments such as the Trends in
International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the
Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), which are
closely tied to school curriculum frameworks and assess younger and
grade-based populations. Like previous rounds of PISA in 2015,
2018, and 2022, in PISA 2025 the entire assessment and the
questionnaires will be administered on computer. In addition to the
cognitive assessments, PISA 2025 will include questionnaires
administered to school principals and assessed students. The school
questionnaire will be delivered online. The school and student
questionnaires are core components of PISA and as such are required
for all participating countries. The teacher questionnaire, which
is optional and was administered in previous rounds (2015 and
2018), will not be administered in 2025 because the U.S. has deemed
the resulting data inadequate for analyses due to the lack of
weights for the teacher data. To prepare for the main study in
2025, PISA countries conducted a field test in the spring of 2024,
primarily to evaluate newly developed assessment and questionnaire
items but also to test the assessment operations. The PISA 2025
field test data collection occurred in the U.S.A. March-April 2024
and the main study data collection will take place
September-November 2025. This submission requests approval for all
final materials associated with recruitment and data collection
activities related to the PISA 2025 main study and is accompanied
by a notice published in the Federal Register allowing a 30-day
public comment period on the final details of the PISA 2025 main
study data collection. In order to conduct the main study by March
2025, we are submitting this 30D revision with the final main study
student video (Appendix A-2) and final school and student
questionnaires (Appendix C-2), as well as refined details about
changes to the design and procedures for the main study (Parts A
& B).
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USC 9573 Name of Law: Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002
The apparent increase in burden
from last approval is due to the fact that the last request was to
conduct the PISA 2022 main study, while this request is for all
burden associated with the PISA 2025 field test and main
study.
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Appendix B-2 - PISA 2025 Main Study Parental Contact Materials v31.docx
Program for International Student Assessment 2025 (PISA 2025) Main Study