[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 4, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 6577]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-02254]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No. ED-2013-ICCD-0142]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Implementation Study of the Ramp Up to Readiness Program
AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences/National Center for Education
Statistics (IES), Department of Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing a new information
collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
March 6, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in response to this notice should be
submitted electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
http://www.regulations.gov by selecting Docket ID number ED-2013-ICCD-
0142 or via postal mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. 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 Director of the Information Collection Clearance
Division, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ,
Mailstop L-OM-2-2E319, Room 2E105,Washington, DC 20202.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions related to collection
activities or burden, please call Katrina Ingalls, 703-620-3655 or
electronically mail [email protected]. Please do not send comments
here. We will ONLY accept comments in this mailbox when the
regulations.gov site is not available to the public for any reason.
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: Implementation Study of the Ramp Up to
Readiness Program.
OMB Control Number: 1850-NEW.
Type of Review: A new information collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 6,086.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 1,212.
Abstract: This study will examine the implementation of Ramp-Up to
Readiness, a schoolwide guidance intervention aimed at increasing the
college readiness of students. The intervention is at present being
implemented in 34 high schools in Minnesota, and the developers intend
to make the intervention available to a much larger set of Minnesota
schools. No independently gathered high-quality evidence exists,
however, on whether schools are able to implement this comprehensive
intervention as intended or how its core components compare to the
college-readiness supports in other high schools. The project for which
OMB clearance is requested will attempt to gather such evidence from 22
public Minnesota high schools through the least burdensome means. The
school-level implementation study will focus on assessing whether Ramp-
Up school staff implement the program as intended, on identifying the
extent to which the Ramp-Up program differs from the college-readiness
supports offered in schools without Ramp-Up, and on the validity of a
measure of personal college readiness, which the developers hypothesize
is a key mechanism through which the program impacts later outcomes.
The study will collect data from school staff in the following
activities: Administrative data collection, focus groups in January and
June, extant document collection, instructional logs, student and staff
surveys, and student personal readiness assessment. The findings
produced through analysis of these data will help (1) state education
agencies seeking strategies and programs to endorse as a potential
means of improving students college readiness and college enrollment,
(2) local education agencies that are considering the challenges of
implementing Ramp-Up, (3) the developer of this intervention (the
College Readiness Consortium at the University of Minnesota) and
developers of other college readiness interventions who continually
seek to improve their programs by using information from studies like
this, and (4) a group of education stakeholders in the Midwest
interested in considering whether to conduct a study of the impacts of
the Ramp-Up intervention on student outcomes.
Dated: January 29, 2014.
Stephanie Valentine,
Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Privacy,
Information and Records Management Services, Office of Management.
[FR Doc. 2014-02254 Filed 2-3-14; 8:45 am]
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