FR Doc 2011-1355[Federal Register: January 24, 2011 (Volume 76, Number 15)]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Notice of Submission for OMB Review
AGENCY: Department of Education.
ACTION: Comment request.
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SUMMARY: The Director, Information Collection Clearance Division,
Regulatory Information Management Services, Office of Management
invites comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13).
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
February 23, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be addressed to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Education Desk Officer,
Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street, NW., Room 10222, New
Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503, be faxed to (202) 395-
5806 or e-mailed to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov with a cc: to
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please note that written comments received in
response to this notice will be considered public records.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35) requires that the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) provide interested Federal agencies and the public an
early opportunity to comment on information collection requests. The
OMB is particularly interested in comments which: (1) Evaluate whether
the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility; (2) Evaluate the accuracy of
the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
used; (3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and (4) Minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Dated: January 19, 2011.
Darrin A. King,
Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Regulatory
Information Management Services, Office of Management.
Institute of Education Sciences
Type of Review: Revision.
Title of Collection: 2011-12 National Postsecondary Student Aid
Study (NPSAS:12) Field Test Student Data Collection.
OMB Control Number: 1850-0666.
Agency Form Number(s): N/A.
Frequency of Responses: Annually.
Affected Public: Individuals or households; Businesses or other
for-profit; Not-for-profit institutions.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 4,093.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 4,256.
Abstract: National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), a
nationally representative study of how students and their families
finance education beyond high school, was first implemented by the
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in 1987 and has been
fielded every 3 to 4 years since. This submission is for collection of
student data in the eighth cycle in the series, NPSAS:12, and
supplements the recently obtained approval for NPSAS:12 collection of
institutional data (OMB 1850-0666 v.7). NPSAS:12 will also
serve as the base year study for the Beginning Postsecondary Students
Longitudinal Study (BPS) of first-time postsecondary students that will
focus on issues of persistence, degree attainment, and employment
outcome. Following the field test study in 2011, NCES will submit an
OMB clearance package for the full scale. The NPSAS:12 field test
sample will include about 300 institutions (full-scale sample about
1,670) and about 4,500 students (120,000 full-scale). Institution
contacting for the field test begun in September 2010 (for full scale
in September 2011), list collection will be conducted January through
May 2011 (full-scale January through June 2012), and student data
collection will take place March through June 2011 (full scale January
through September 2012). Changes since the last NPSAS collection in
2008 include a new cohort of the BPS which will conduct follow-up
studies in 2014 and 2017, and revised strata for institution sampling
to reflect the recent growth in enrollment in for-profit 4-year
institutions. This submission requests approval for conducting student
interviews, collecting student records, and file matching for NPSAS:12
as part of the 2011 field test and a 60-day Federal Register public
notice waiver for the 2012 full-scale study.
Requests for copies of the information collection submission for
OMB review may be accessed from the RegInfo.gov Web site at
http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain or from the Department's Web site
at http://edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the ``Browse Pending Collections''
link and by clicking on link number 4441. When you access the
information collection, click on ``Download Attachments'' to view.
Written requests for information should be addressed to U.S. Department
of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., LBJ, Washington, DC 20202-4537.
Requests may also be electronically mailed to the Internet address
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202-401-0920. Please specify the
complete title of the information collection and OMB Control Number
when making your request.
Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD)
may call the Federal Information
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Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339.
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