Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS 2023) Field Test Data Collection and Main Study Sampling, Recruitment, and Data Collection, 35277-35278 [2021-14187]
Download as PDF
<![CDATA[
Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 125 / Friday, July 2, 2021 / Notices
BUREAU OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL
PROTECTION
[Docket No. CFPB–2021–0013]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review: Comment Request
Bureau of Consumer Financial
Protection.
ACTION: Notice and request for comment.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), the Bureau of Consumer
Financial Protection (Bureau) is
requesting Office of Management and
Budget’s (OMB’s) approval of a generic
Information Collection titled, ‘‘Making
Ends Meet Survey,’’ under the Generic
Information Collection Plan entitled,
‘‘Generic Information Collection Plan
for Surveys Using the Consumer Credit
Panel.’’
DATES: Written comments are
encouraged and must be received on or
before August 2, 2021 to be assured of
consideration.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
In general, all comments received will
become public records, including any
personal information provided.
Sensitive personal information, such as
account numbers or Social Security
numbers, should not be included.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Documentation prepared in support of
this information collection request is
available at www.reginfo.gov (this link
becomes active on the day following
publication of this notice). Select
‘‘Information Collection Review,’’ under
‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ use the
dropdown menu ‘‘Select Agency’’ and
select ‘‘Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau’’ (recent submissions to OMB
will be at the top of the list). The same
documentation is also available at
https://www.regulations.gov. Requests for
additional information should be
directed to Anthony May, Paperwork
Reduction Act Officer, at (202) 841–
0544, or email: CFPB_PRA@cfpb.gov. If
you require this document in an
alternative electronic format, please
contact CFPB_Accessibility@cfpb.gov.
Please do not submit comments to these
email boxes.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1
SUMMARY:
VerDate Sep<11>2014
17:12 Jul 01, 2021
Jkt 253001
Title of Collection: Making Ends Meet
Survey.
OMB Control Number: 3170–0066.
Type of Review: Request for approval
of a generic information collection
under an existing Generic Information
Collection Plan.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
4,200.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1,400.
Abstract: Under the Dodd-Frank Wall
Street Reform and Consumer Protection
Act, the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau is charged with researching,
analyzing, and reporting on topics
relating to the Bureau’s mission,
including consumer behavior, consumer
awareness, and developments in
markets for consumer financial products
and services. To improve its
understanding of how consumers
engage with financial markets, the
Bureau has successfully used the
Consumer Credit Panel (CCP), a
proprietary sample dataset from one of
the national credit reporting agencies, as
a frame to survey people about their
experiences in consumer credit markets.
The Bureau seeks to obtain approval for
an additional round of the ‘‘Making
Ends Meet’’ survey. This series of
surveys solicits information on the
consumer’s experience related to
household financial shocks, particularly
shocks related to the economic effects of
the COVID–19 pandemic, how
households respond to those shocks,
and the role of savings to help provide
a financial buffer. Additional topics in
this round of the survey include debt
collection, healthcare, housing, and
financial decision-making, attitudes,
and perspectives. The survey will go to
a new random sample of consumers
from the CCP. All research under this
collection will be related to the
household balance sheet, and, thus, will
be for general, formative, and
informational research on consumer
financial markets and consumers’ use of
financial products and will not directly
provide the basis for specific
policymaking at the Bureau.
Request for Comments: The Bureau is
publishing this notice and soliciting
comments directed to the Office of
management and Budget on: (a)
Whether the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the Bureau, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) The accuracy of the
Bureau’s estimate of the burden of the
collection of information, including the
validity of the methods and the
assumptions used; (c) Ways to enhance
PO 00000
Frm 00019
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
35277
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d)
Ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to this
notice will be reviewed by OMB as part
of its review of this request. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Special Request for Comments: The
proposed survey contains more
questions than the Bureau intends to
mail, the Bureau solicits comments on
which questions provide the most value.
Comments submitted in response to this
notice will be submitted to OMB as part
of its review of this request. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: June 29, 2021.
Anthony May,
Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau.
[FR Doc. 2021–14181 Filed 7–1–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4810–AM–P
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED–2021–SCC–0095]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Comment Request; Trends
in International Mathematics and
Science Study (TIMSS 2023) Field Test
Data Collection and Main Study
Sampling, Recruitment, and Data
Collection
Institute of Educational Science
(IES), National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES), Department of
Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is
proposing a revision to a currently
approved information collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before August
31, 2021.
ADDRESSES: To access and review all the
documents related to the information
collection listed in this notice, please
use https://www.regulations.gov by
searching the Docket ID number ED–
2021–SCC–0095. Comments submitted
in response to this notice should be
submitted electronically through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at https://
www.regulations.gov by selecting the
Docket ID number or via postal mail,
commercial delivery, or hand delivery.
If the regulations.gov site is not
available to the public for any reason,
SUMMARY:
E:\FR\FM\02JYN1.SGM
02JYN1
lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1
35278
Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 125 / Friday, July 2, 2021 / Notices
ED will temporarily accept comments at
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please include the
docket ID number and the title of the
information collection request when
requesting documents or submitting
comments. Please note that comments
submitted by fax or email and those
submitted after the comment period will
not be accepted. Written requests for
information or comments submitted by
postal mail or delivery should be
addressed to the PRA Coordinator of the
Strategic Collections and Clearance
Governance and Strategy Division, U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Ave. SW, LBJ, Room 6W208B,
Washington, DC 20202–8240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Carrie Clarady,
202–245–6347.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department of Education (ED), in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general
public and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed,
revised, and continuing collections of
information. This helps the Department
assess the impact of its information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. It also
helps the public understand the
Department’s information collection
requirements and provide the requested
data in the desired format. ED is
soliciting comments on the proposed
information collection request (ICR) that
is described below. The Department of
Education is especially interested in
public comment addressing the
following issues: (1) Is this collection
necessary to the proper functions of the
Department; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner;
(3) is the estimate of burden accurate;
(4) how might the Department enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (5) how
might the Department minimize the
burden of this collection on the
respondents, including through the use
of information technology. Please note
that written comments received in
response to this notice will be
considered public records.
Title of Collection: Trends in
International Mathematics and Science
Study (TIMSS 2023) Field Test Data
Collection and Main Study Sampling,
Recruitment, and Data Collection.
OMB Control Number: 1850–0695.
Type of Review: A revision of a
currently approved information
collection.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Individuals and Households.
VerDate Sep<11>2014
17:12 Jul 01, 2021
Jkt 253001
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 50,996.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 20,336.
Abstract: The Trends in International
Mathematics and Science Study
(TIMSS), conducted by the National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES),
within the U.S. Department of
Education (ED), is an international
assessment of fourth and eighth grade
students’ achievement in mathematics
and science. Since its inception in 1995,
TIMSS has continued to assess students
every 4 years (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007,
2011, 2015, and 2019), with the next
TIMSS assessment, TIMSS 2023, being
the eighth iteration of the study. In
TIMSS 2023, approximately 65
countries or education systems will
participate. The United States will
participate in TIMSS 2023 to continue
to monitor the progress of its students
compared to that of other nations and to
provide data on factors that may
influence student achievement.
TIMSS is led by the International
Association for the Evaluation of
Educational Achievement (IEA), an
international collective of research
organizations and government agencies
that create the frameworks used to
develop the assessment, the survey
instruments, and the study timeline.
IEA decides and agrees upon a common
set of standards, procedures, and
timelines for collecting and reporting
data, all of which must be followed by
all participating countries. As a result,
TIMSS is able to provide a reliable and
comparable measure of student skills in
participating countries. In the U.S.,
NCES conducts this study in
collaboration with the IEA and a
number of contractors to ensure proper
implementation of the study and
adoption of practices in adherence to
the IEA’s standards. Participation in
TIMSS is consistent with NCES’s
mandate of acquiring and disseminating
data on educational activities and
student achievement in the United
States compared with foreign nations
[The Educational Sciences Reform Act
of 2002 (ESRA 2002, 20 U.S.C. 9543)].
A previous request to conduct
sampling and recruitment activities
associated with the TIMSS 2023 field
test, which will be conducted in March
and April 2022, was approved by OMB
in May 2021 (OMB# 1850–0695 v.16).
Because TIMSS is a collaborative effort
among many parties, the United States
must adhere to the international
schedule set forth by the IEA, including
the availability of final field test and
main study plans as well as draft and
final questionnaires. In order to meet
the international data collection
PO 00000
Frm 00020
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
schedule, to align with recruitment for
other NCES studies (e.g., the National
Assessment of Education Progress,
NAEP), and for schools to put the
TIMSS 2023 field test assessment on
their Spring 2022 calendars, recruitment
activities for the field test will begin in
June of 2021. This package requests
approval for the field test data collection
materials and the main study sampling,
recruiting, and data collection plans.
Recruitment activities for the main
study will begin in January 2022, with
the data collection activities currently
scheduled to begin in March 2023.
Dated: June 29, 2021.
Stephanie Valentine,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and
Clearance Governance and Strategy Division,
Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of
Planning, Evaluation and Policy
Development.
[FR Doc. 2021–14187 Filed 7–1–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4000–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED–2021–SCC–0096]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Comment Request;
Education Stabilization Fund—
Elementary and Secondary School
Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER I/
ESSER II/ARP ESSER Fund) Recipient
Data Collection Form
Office of Elementary and
Secondary Education (OESE),
Department of Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is
proposing a revision of a currently
approved collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before August
31, 2021.
ADDRESSES: To access and review all the
documents related to the information
collection listed in this notice, please
use https://www.regulations.gov by
searching the Docket ID number ED–
2021–SCC–0096. Comments submitted
in response to this notice should be
submitted electronically through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at https://
www.regulations.gov by selecting the
Docket ID number or via postal mail,
commercial delivery, or hand delivery.
If the regulations.gov site is not
available to the public for any reason,
ED will temporarily accept comments at
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please include the
docket ID number and the title of the
information collection request when
requesting documents or submitting
SUMMARY:
E:\FR\FM\02JYN1.SGM
02JYN1
]]>Agencies
[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 125 (Friday, July 2, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35277-35278]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-14187]
=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED-2021-SCC-0095]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Trends
in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS 2023) Field Test
Data Collection and Main Study Sampling, Recruitment, and Data
Collection
AGENCY: Institute of Educational Science (IES), National Center for
Education Statistics (NCES), Department of Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is
proposing a revision to a currently approved information collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
August 31, 2021.
ADDRESSES: To access and review all the documents related to the
information collection listed in this notice, please use https://www.regulations.gov by searching the Docket ID number ED-2021-SCC-0095.
Comments submitted in response to this notice should be submitted
electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at https://www.regulations.gov by selecting the Docket ID number or via postal
mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. If the regulations.gov
site is not available to the public for any reason,
[[Page 35278]]
ED will temporarily accept comments at [email protected]. Please
include the docket ID number and the title of the information
collection request when requesting documents or submitting comments.
Please note that comments submitted by fax or email and those submitted
after the comment period will not be accepted. Written requests for
information or comments submitted by postal mail or delivery should be
addressed to the PRA Coordinator of the Strategic Collections and
Clearance Governance and Strategy Division, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, LBJ, Room 6W208B, Washington, DC
20202-8240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to
collection activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, 202-245-6347.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Education (ED), in
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general public and Federal agencies with
an opportunity to comment on proposed, revised, and continuing
collections of information. This helps the Department assess the impact
of its information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. It also helps the public understand the Department's
information collection requirements and provide the requested data in
the desired format. ED is soliciting comments on the proposed
information collection request (ICR) that is described below. The
Department of Education is especially interested in public comment
addressing the following issues: (1) Is this collection necessary to
the proper functions of the Department; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate of burden
accurate; (4) how might the Department enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be collected; and (5) how might the
Department minimize the burden of this collection on the respondents,
including through the use of information technology. Please note that
written comments received in response to this notice will be considered
public records.
Title of Collection: Trends in International Mathematics and
Science Study (TIMSS 2023) Field Test Data Collection and Main Study
Sampling, Recruitment, and Data Collection.
OMB Control Number: 1850-0695.
Type of Review: A revision of a currently approved information
collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals and Households.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 50,996.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 20,336.
Abstract: The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study
(TIMSS), conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES), within the U.S. Department of Education (ED), is an
international assessment of fourth and eighth grade students'
achievement in mathematics and science. Since its inception in 1995,
TIMSS has continued to assess students every 4 years (1995, 1999, 2003,
2007, 2011, 2015, and 2019), with the next TIMSS assessment, TIMSS
2023, being the eighth iteration of the study. In TIMSS 2023,
approximately 65 countries or education systems will participate. The
United States will participate in TIMSS 2023 to continue to monitor the
progress of its students compared to that of other nations and to
provide data on factors that may influence student achievement.
TIMSS is led by the International Association for the Evaluation of
Educational Achievement (IEA), an international collective of research
organizations and government agencies that create the frameworks used
to develop the assessment, the survey instruments, and the study
timeline. IEA decides and agrees upon a common set of standards,
procedures, and timelines for collecting and reporting data, all of
which must be followed by all participating countries. As a result,
TIMSS is able to provide a reliable and comparable measure of student
skills in participating countries. In the U.S., NCES conducts this
study in collaboration with the IEA and a number of contractors to
ensure proper implementation of the study and adoption of practices in
adherence to the IEA's standards. Participation in TIMSS is consistent
with NCES's mandate of acquiring and disseminating data on educational
activities and student achievement in the United States compared with
foreign nations [The Educational Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA
2002, 20 U.S.C. 9543)].
A previous request to conduct sampling and recruitment activities
associated with the TIMSS 2023 field test, which will be conducted in
March and April 2022, was approved by OMB in May 2021 (OMB# 1850-0695
v.16). Because TIMSS is a collaborative effort among many parties, the
United States must adhere to the international schedule set forth by
the IEA, including the availability of final field test and main study
plans as well as draft and final questionnaires. In order to meet the
international data collection schedule, to align with recruitment for
other NCES studies (e.g., the National Assessment of Education
Progress, NAEP), and for schools to put the TIMSS 2023 field test
assessment on their Spring 2022 calendars, recruitment activities for
the field test will begin in June of 2021. This package requests
approval for the field test data collection materials and the main
study sampling, recruiting, and data collection plans. Recruitment
activities for the main study will begin in January 2022, with the data
collection activities currently scheduled to begin in March 2023.
Dated: June 29, 2021.
Stephanie Valentine,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance Governance and
Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning,
Evaluation and Policy Development.
[FR Doc. 2021-14187 Filed 7-1-21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4000-01-P
