This request is to conduct data
collection for the 2016-17 Principal Follow-up Survey (PFS), a
one-year follow up of principals who responded to the 2015-16
National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS). PFS is conducted by
the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), of the
Institute of Education Sciences (IES), within the U.S. Department
of Education (ED). The PFS has been conducted two times previously:
beginning in 2008-09 as a follow up to the Schools and Staffing
Survey (SASS) in 2007-08 (OMB# 1850-0598 v.5) and, subsequently, as
a follow-up to SASS in 2012-2013 (OMB# 1850-0598 v.9). During the
2015-16 school year, NCES conducted the first NTPS (OMB #1850-0598
v.11), a redesign of SASS to improve the flexibility, efficiency,
and timeliness of NCES data on the nation’s K-12 schools,
principals, and teachers. The 2016-17 PFS will be the first to
launch from the redesigned NTPS. The PFS survey design and content
remain highly consistent with earlier administrations. The 2016-17
PFS, like earlier PFS collections, will measure the one-year
attrition rates of principals who leave the profession and will
permit comparisons of stayers, movers, and leavers. “Stayers” are
principals who remain in the same school between the NTPS year of
data collection and the follow-up year; “movers” are principals who
stay in the profession but change schools between the NTPS year and
the follow-up year; and “leavers” are NTPS respondents who leave
the principal profession between the NTPS year and the follow-up
year. The data collected in the 2016-17 PFS will be combined with
data collected in the 2015-16 NTPS on principal characteristics,
qualifications, and perceptions of the school environment.
Together, NTPS and PFS provide national data on turnover in the
principal workforce, including rates of entry and attrition from
principalship, sources and characteristics of newly hired
principals, and characteristics and destinations of leavers. The
cross-sectional repeated design of PFS allows for analyses of
trends related to these topics.
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USC 9543 Name of Law: Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002
This is a new collection and,
as such, represents an increase in respondent burden. However,
please note that PFS has been conducted two times previously:
beginning in 2008-09 as a follow up to the Schools and Staffing
Survey (SASS) in 2007-08 (OMB# 1850-0598 v.5) and, subsequently, as
a follow-up to SASS in 2012-2013 (OMB# 1850-0598 v.9). The
1850-0598 OMB# has been primarily used for SASS data collections
and is now used for SASS’s redesigned successor survey, NTPS. Given
that NTPS will be conducted every other year, to avoid confusion
between NTPS and its follow up studies, we are seeking a new OMB
number for PFS, which will be used for all PFS clearance
submissions going forward.
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.
Attachment A - PFS 2016-17 Respondent Contact Materials.docx
Principal Follow-Up Survey (PFS 2016-17) to the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS 2015-16)