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OMB Control No: 1850-0803	ICR Reference No: 201003-1850-001
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 200812-1850-002
Agency/Subagency: ED/IES	Agency Tracking No: 3738
Title: System Clearance for Cognitive, Pilot and Field Test Studies
Type of Information Collection: No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 03/10/2010
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 03/08/2010
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	09/30/2010	09/30/2010	09/30/2010
Responses	45,000	0	3,540
Time Burden (Hours)	9,000	0	4,442
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses	45,000	3,540	41,460
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	9,000	4,442	4,558
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Increase Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: This change request is to increase the number of responses and burden hours allowed under the generic clearance for the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to conduct various tests of questionnaires and survey procedures, especially to test new questions, forms, or other methodologies. These procedures include but are not limited to experiments with levels of incentives for various types of survey operations, focus groups, cognitive laboratory activities, pilot testing, experiments with questionnaire design, and usability testing of electronic data collection instruments. There are two primary reasons for the request to increase burden: (1) inclusion of screeners and other recruitment activities that were not before included in burden calculations (this increases the estimated number of respondents approximately 12 times and the estimated burden hours approximately 2 times per study), and (2) anticipated increase in the number of cognitive studies being submitted to OMB for clearance as a result of recent OMB guidance pertaining to testing new items and methodologies.