Impact Evaluation of Upward Bound's Increased Focus on Higher-Risk Students - Baseline Data Collection Protocols

ICR 200612-1850-002

OMB: 1850-0822

Federal Form Document

Forms and Documents
Document
Name
Status
Supplementary Document
2007-03-12
Supporting Statement B
2006-12-15
Supporting Statement A
2006-12-15
Supplementary Document
2006-12-13
ICR Details
1850-0822 200612-1850-002
Historical Active
ED/IES 3242
Impact Evaluation of Upward Bound's Increased Focus on Higher-Risk Students - Baseline Data Collection Protocols
New collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)   No
Emergency 01/24/2007
Approved without change 03/13/2007
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 12/21/2006
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
09/30/2007 6 Months From Approved
7,290 0 0
3,900 0 0
0 0 0

This evaluation will focus on the impacts of Upward Bound on students applying to enter the program as early as the summer of 2007. The current OMB package requests clearance for the instruments to be used in gathering information.
The Department is requesting emergency clearance to begin collection of parental and student consent forms, baseline information forms, and student selection forms. If the evaluation has to go through the normal clearance process, ED's notification to work with grantees on data collection could not begin until late March or early April 2007, where many grantees are completing their application periods. This schedule would likely mean that summer programs would need to be delayed or perhaps cancelled for new students, creating hostility toward the evaluation, undermining the validity of the evaluation and harming its ability to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the redesigned Upward Bound program. Emergency processing would allow the Department to contact sampled grantees to be in the evaluation in late January or early February 2007, allowing more time for the evaluator to work with grantees selected for the evaluation (contingent on their receipt of funding for 2007), ensure that a sufficient number of eligible students are recruited to form a control group, and obtain the necessary consent and baseline student data required before random assignment can occur.

PL: Pub.L. 105 - 244 404A Name of Law: Higher Education Act of 1965, 1998, Higher Education Act Amendments
  
None

Not associated with rulemaking

No

3
IC Title Form No. Form Name
Parent Consent Forms
Student Assent and Baseline Forms
Student Selection Forms

  Total Approved Previously Approved Change Due to New Statute Change Due to Agency Discretion Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate Change Due to Potential Violation of the PRA
Annual Number of Responses 7,290 0 0 7,290 0 0
Annual Time Burden (Hours) 3,900 0 0 3,900 0 0
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars) 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yes
Miscellaneous Actions
No
This is a new collection.

$743,997
Yes Part B of Supporting Statement
No
Uncollected
Uncollected
Uncollected
Uncollected
Jonathan Jacobson 202 208-3876 [email protected]

  No

On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    (i) Why the information is being collected;
    (ii) Use of information;
    (iii) Burden estimate;
    (iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
    (v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
    (vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
 
 
 
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
12/21/2006


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