The High School and Beyond 2020 study
(HS&B:20) will be the sixth in a series of longitudinal studies
at the high school level conducted by the National Center for
Education Statistics (NCES), within the Institute of Education
Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. HS&B:20
will follow a nationally-representative sample of ninth grade
students from the start of high school in the fall of 2020 to the
spring of 2024 when most will be in twelfth grade. The study sample
will be freshened in 2024 to create a nationally representative
sample of twelfth-graders. A high school transcript collection and
additional follow-up data collections beyond high school are also
planned. The NCES secondary longitudinal studies examine issues
such as students’ readiness for high school; the risk factors
associated with dropping out of high school; high school
completion; the transition into postsecondary education and
access/choice of institution; the shift from school to work; and
the pipeline into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM). They inform education policy by tracking long-term trends
and elucidating relationships among student, family, and school
characteristics and experiences. HS&B:20 will follow the Middle
Grades Longitudinal Study of 2017/18 (MGLS:2017) which followed the
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort of 2011
(ECLS-K:2011), thereby allowing for the study of all transitions
from elementary school through high school and into higher
education and/or the workforce. HS&B:20 will include surveys of
students, parents, students’ math teachers, counselors, and
administrators. Students will also receive assessments in
mathematics and reading, and be given a 2-minute vision test and a
10-minute hearing test. This request is to conduct, beginning in
January 2019, state, school district, school, and parent
recruitment activities, including collection of student rosters and
selection of the base-year field test sample in preparation for the
HS&B:20 base-year field test, scheduled to take place in the
fall of 2019. Approval for the base-year field test data collection
and base-year full-scale sampling and recruitment activities will
be requested in a separate submission in early 2019.
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USC 9573 Name of Law: Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002
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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).
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the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
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(ii) Use of information;
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(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
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and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.