OMb 83C for 1850-0840

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT

CHANGE WORKSHEET

Agency/Subagency U.S. Department of Education/ Institute of Education Sciences		OMB Control Number 1850-0840
	Enter only items that change Current Record	New Record
Agency form number(s)	NA	NA
Annual reporting and record keeping hour burden
Number of respondent	17,344	16,576
Total annual responses	17,344	16,576
Percent of these responses collected electronically	No change	No change
Total annual hours	3905	3819
Difference		-86
Explanation of difference		256 teachers x 10 minutes
Program change		-86
Adjustment
Annual reporting and record keeping cost burden (in thousands of dollars)
Total annualized capital/startup costs	0	0
Total annual costs (O&M)	0	0
Total annualized cost requested	0	0
Difference		0
Explanation of difference
Program change adjustment		0
Other: 1850-0840 is an information collection related to A Study of the Effects of Using Classroom Assessment for Student Learning (CASL) (REL-Central, IES).   Institute of Education Sciences has requested addition of 9 items to the Teacher Survey (1st follow up version) regarding teacher collaboration within schools as part of ED’s contamination sub-study (previously proposed to OMB).  The goal of the sub- study is to gauge whether the frequency and nature of interactions among teachers may lead to contamination in a study in which teachers are randomly assigned to treatment and control groups within the same school. If teachers frequently talk to one another about topics related to education and teaching, implement ideas suggested by other teachers, or share curriculum materials, then greater risk exists that randomizing classrooms could lead to contamination. On the other hand, if relatively few teachers report that they modify their classroom practices as a result of interactions with colleagues, the risk of contamination when randomizing classrooms within schools would seem to be less. The survey questions focus on both formal and informal interactions among teachers, and on whether teachers take actions based on these interactions. Addition of these items will increase the teacher burden for Teacher Survey (follow up version) by 10 minutes, however, there is only one data collection that will be impacted by this change. The reduction in the number of responses more than offsets the increase of ten minutes that will be added to the survey time. The overall yearly data collection burden is reduced from 3,905 hours to 3,819 hours.
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