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1850-0755 200710-1850-003
Historical Active 200610-1850-003
ED/IES 2831
Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection   No
Regular
Approved with change 12/10/2007
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 10/26/2007
OMB appreciates that NCES has put into place additional quality control measures with its PISA vendors to help ensure that production errors such as the printing errors discovered earlier this year are not repeated. OMB looks forward to hearing about how these changes are working. In addition, OMB appreciates that NCES has had historical difficulty reaching response rates required by the OECD for its PISA program, and that much of the value from the program is lost if not accepted for the international comparisons. OMB is therefore willing to agree to incentive levels proposed by NCES for PISA, but these decisions do not imply an acceptable level of incentives for other survey programs, which continue to need to be separately justified.
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
03/31/2008 03/31/2008 03/31/2008
4,629 0 4,629
2,690 0 2,690
0 0 0