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1850-0888 201110-1850-001
Historical Active
ED/IES 4696
Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2013 Field Trial
New collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)   No
Regular
Approved with change 12/16/2011
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 11/03/2011
OMB appreciates that NCES has candidly shared with it the perspective that “There are a number of items on the teacher and principal questionnaires which NCES has argued are of little or no analytic utility.” OMB also appreciates that NCES has expressed this sentiment repeatedly in OECD meetings to plan the TALIS field trial, although to little avail. OMB also understands that the condition of any country’s participation is to accept the internationally approved questions as a set, without deviation. Nonetheless, the Paperwork Reduction Act does not permit the collection of information with no utility. Therefore, OMB approves this field test with great reluctance. OMB expects NCES to continue to advocate for including in the full scale study only those questions that have demonstrated validity, reliability and utility. It also expects NCES to elevate such concerns as needed within the Department to ensure that policy officials also are expressing concerns at the appropriate levels at OECD. Finally, NCES should continue to apprise OMB’s Chief Statistician in order to ensure that concerns can be shared in parallel with OECD’s Chief Statistician. OMB will not look favorably on a request to approve full scale TALIS questionnaires on which problematic questions remain.
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
12/31/2014 36 Months From Approved
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