OMB83C Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGE WORKSHEET
Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS 2016) Main Study Questionnaire
Update Change Request
Agency/Subagency

OMB Control Number

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences
Enter only items that change
Agency form number(s)
Annual reporting and record keeping
hour burden
Number of respondent
Total annual responses
Percent of these responses
collected electronically
Total annual hours

1850-0645 v.10

Current Record

New Record

NA

NA

5,518
10,317

5,518
10,317

47%

47%

4,764

4,764

Difference

0

Explanation of difference

NA

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
Difference

NA

NA

NA
NA

NA
NA
NA

Explanation of difference

NA
NA

Program change
Adjustment
Other change**

The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2016 is coordinated by the International
Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and in the U.S. administered by the National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Since its inception in 2001, PIRLS has continued to assess students
every five years (2001, 2006, 2011, 2016). It is typically administered in more than 40 countries and provides data
for internationally benchmarking U.S. performance in fourth-grade reading. PIRLS also collects background
information on students, parents, teachers, schools, curricula, and official education policies. Each successive
round of participation in PIRLS provides trend information about U.S. 4th-grade students’ knowledge and abilities
in reading relative to other countries, and about the cultural environments, teaching practices, curriculum goals,
and institutional arrangements that are associated with student achievement, and how these change over time in
different countries. PIRLS 2016 includes an innovative new assessment of online reading, ePIRLS, which is
designed to help countries understand how successful they are in preparing fourth-grade students to read,
comprehend, and interpret online information. The PIRLS 2016 Main Study data collection, scheduled to take
place between March and May 2016, was approved in November 2015 (OMB 1850-0645 v.9). This request is to
revise three items in the PIRLS 2016 Main Study Teacher Questionnaire and School Questionnaire to make them
consistent with each other.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

For OIRA Use

November 18, 2014

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