JUSTIFICATION FOR CHANGE
OMB CONTROL NO. 0648-0568
Educational Partnership Program (EPP) and Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship Program
The NOAA Office of Education would like to revise:
The Student and Performance Measures Tracking System (web-form).
The Voluntary Alumni Information Update Sheet (now a web-form).
The Student and Performance Measures Tracking System is used to collect data on students who are supported by NOAA programs and collect numbers in support of program performance measures.
The voluntary alumni information update sheet is used to update information on alumni of NOAA student scholarship programs. The update sheet/form is available to alumni for completion. The provided data is uploaded into the Student and Performance Measures Tracking System (SPMTS).
The proposed changes to the forms will enable the NOAA program to collect data for the purpose of comparing program data to national data for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) data calls from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Government Accounting Office. This additional data will also enable the NOAA program to respond to the Office of Management and Budget program evaluation request.
To support STEM data calls, the alumni form was changed to a web-form and will collect additional data such as whether the student is employed and/or pursued graduate degrees in STEM. The SPMTS was modified to align with the data requested in the alumni form and to collect additional data in support of NOAA program performance measures.
Changes to the Student Tracker form are only to the Post-Education and Performance measures sections:
Post Education Section
This section allows a user to edit post graduation information about the student.
NO CHANGE – Program
CHANGE – New – Last Name, if different from above: Add data field
CHANGE – New – Email Address: Add new data field
CHANGE- New – Program Completion Dates: Add data field (mm/yyyy)
NO CHANGE – Industry Sector
If Industry Sector = Academia
CHANGE – New - Academic Institution: Add data field (drop down menu of institutions)
CHANGE – New – Degree: Add data field (drop down menu of degrees)
CHANGE – New – Degree Earned: Add data field (Yes or No)
CHANGE – New – Major: Add data field (drop down menu of majors)
CHANGE – New – Area of Concentration: Add data field (drop down menu of area of concentrations)
If Industry Sector ≠ Academia
NO CHANGE – Organization
NO CHANGE – Occupation
NO CHANGE – Field of Work
NO CHANGE – Place of Work
NO CHANGE – Job Title
NO CHANGE – Hired Date
NO CHANGE – Hired Level
NO CHANGE – Hired Grade
NO CHANGE – Line Office
NO CHANGE – Future Plans
Performance Measures Section
This section allows the user to input performance measures
NO CHANGE - Fiscal Year
NO CHANGE - Fiscal Year Period
NO CHANGE - Number of collaborative projects
Add data fields to collect
CHANGE – New – Number of collaborative projects among NOAA
CHANGE – New – Number of collaborative projects among Cooperative Science Centers
CHANGE – New - Number of collaborative projects among Others
NO CHANGE – Number of peer reviewed publication
NO CHANGE - Number of student peer reviewed publications
NO CHANGE - Leveraged funding amount
NO CHANGE - Number of students completing experiential opportunities at NOAA facilities
NO CHANGE - Number of students and faculty who participate in and complete postdoctoral level research programs
ADDED
NEW DATA FIELDS
CHANGE – New - Number of Cooperative Science Center students trained and who graduate in NOAA-mission science, service, and stewardship fields:
CHANGE – New - Number of students from underrepresented communities who are trained and graduate in NOAA-mission science, service, and stewardship fields:
CHANGE – New - Number of Cooperative Science Center students entering Graduate Education in NOAA science, service, and stewardship mission fields:
CHANGE - New - Number of Cooperative Science Center-supported graduates who entered the workforce
Add data fields to collect
CHANGE – New - Number of graduates who entered NOAA/NOAA Contractor workforce
CHANGE – New - Number of graduates who entered private sector workforce
CHANGE – New - Number of graduates who entered Federal sector, state/local government, tribal, natural resources management agencies workforce
CHANGE – New - Number of graduates who entered entrepreneur workforce
CHANGE – New - Number of graduates who entered academic sector workforce
Changes to the Alumni Information Update Sheet
Name Change
Change the name from “NOAA Student Scholarship Programs, Voluntary Alumni Information Update Sheet” to “NOAA Student Scholarship Programs, Alumni Information Update Sheet.”
The word “voluntary” is deleted.
Please indicate the Scholarship received Section
The section allows the user to select the scholarship program
No changes
General Information Section
NO CHANGE – Last Name
NO CHANGE – First Name
NO CHANGE – Phone
NO CHANGE – Email Address
CHANGE – name is changed from “Dates in Program” to “Program completion Dates”
CHANGE – name is changed from “Previous name used, if different from above” to “Last name, different from above
CHANGE – New – Have you graduated (Yes or No): Added data field
CHANGE – New - Confirm graduation date(s): (mm/yyyy)
CHANGE – New – Gender: Added data field (Female, Male, None, Other)
CHANGE – New – Ethnicity: Added data field (Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, White, None, Other)
Educational Information
NO CHANGE – Institution Name
NO CHANGE – State
NO CHANGE – Degree
CHANGE – New – Degree Earned: (Yes or No)
NO CHANGE – Graduation Date
CHANGE – delete “Thesis Title”
NO CHANGE – Major
NO CHANGE – Area of Concentration
Employment Information
If employed
CHANGE – delete Employer Name
NO CHANGE – Occupation
NO CHANGE – Field of Work
CHANGE – New – Area of Work (drop down menu)
In NOAA related field
In other STEM field
Not in STEM
CHANGE – delete HIRED DATE
NO CHANGE – Industry Sector (drop down menu)
NOAA
NOAA Contractor
Other Federal, State, Local, or Tribal Government,
Foundation or other Non-Government
Academia
Private Industry
Other
CHANGE – delete “Most significant achievement since receiving the scholarship”
If not employed
CHANGE – New – Check box for Not Employed
CHANGE – New – Are you seeking Employment? (Yes or No)
If yes
CHANGE – New – Select
In NOAA related field
In other STEM field
Not in STEM
Change
in burden:
There is no change in response time for the Alumni Update form. For
the Student Tracker and Performance Measures form, there is estimated
to be an additional 12 minutes per responses. There are 4 Cooperative
Science Center student tracker forms to be completed by grantees or
principal investigators (forms for other programs are completed by
Office of Education staff), and three updates per form are due each
year, for a total of 12 responses (currently approved numbers are 12
forms and 36 responses, but we are taking the opportunity to update).
The current burden estimate is 16 hours per response. Adding
12 x 12 minutes (2 hours) to the revised current burden total of
10,944 (11,328 – 384), brings the new total to 10,946 (10,944 +
2).
| File Type | application/msword |
| Author | Sarah Brabson |
| Last Modified By | gbanks |
| File Modified | 2013-05-05 |
| File Created | 2013-05-05 |