The scope of this information collection request will primarily cover descriptive information gathered from education and training projects that are funded by NSF. NSF will primarily use the data from this collection for program planning, management, and audit purposes to respond to queries from the Congress, the public, NSF's external merit reviewers who serve as advisers, including Committees of Visitors (COVs), the NSF's Office of the Inspector General and as a basis for either internal or third-party valuations of individual programs. The collections will generally include three categories of descriptive data: (1) Staff and project participants (data that are also necessary to determine individual-level treatment and control groups for future third-party study or for internal evaluation); (2) project implementation characteristics (also necessary for future use to identify well-matched comparison groups); and (3) project outputs (necessary to measure baseline for pre- and post- NSF-funding level impacts).
US Code:
42 USC 1861 et seq.
Name of Law: National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended
The decrease in respondents is due largely to (1) transitions in several programs that are no longer making new awards (i.e., GK-12, IGERT, RDE, STEP, and TUES), and (2) a decision by the AISL program to leverage NSF enterprise data to provide evidence necessary for monitoring, post-award management, and assessment of outcomes associated with AISL projects.
In future years, the burden will be affected by the deletion and addition of some subtasks and respondents. NSF will notify OMB when there are significant changes to the burden.
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.
3.AppendixA_2019 EHR Prog Monitoring_Annual Response Burden (25Mar'19).docx
2016 EHR Prog Monitoring_Master Crosswalk_updated 20151024.doc
Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (TUES) Monitoring System