83C Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGE WORKSHEET
High School and Beyond 2020 (HS&B:20) Base-Year Full-Scale Study Recruitment Spring 2020
Study Delay Change Request
Agency/Subagency

OMB Control Number

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences
Enter only items that change
Agency form number(s)
Annual reporting and record keeping hour
burden
Number of respondent
Total annual responses
Percent of these responses
collected electronically
Total annual hours

1850-0944 v.6

Current Record

New Record

NA

NA

38,206
53,503

38,206
53,503

24%

24%

35,639

35,639

Difference
Explanation of difference
Program change

0

0
0

Adjustment
Annual reporting and record keeping cost
burden (in thousands of dollars)
Total annualized capital/startup
costs
Total annual costs (O&M)
Total annualized cost requested

NA

NA

NA
NA

NA
NA
NA

Difference
Explanation of difference
Program change
Adjustment

NA
NA

Other change**

The High School and Beyond 2020 study (HS&B:20) was to 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. The request to conduct the HS&B:20 Base-Year Field Test (BYFT) and the BYFS sampling and state,
school district, school, and parent recruitment activities, both scheduled to begin in the fall of 2019, was last approved in August
2019 with a change request approved in December 2019 (OMB# 1850-0944 v.3-5). Because of school closures as a result of the
ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, NCES has decided to postpone the planned data collection from fall 2020 to fall of 2021. HS&B:21
will now follow a nationally representative sample of ninth grade students from the start of high school in the fall of 2021 to the
spring of 2025 when most will be in twelfth grade. A field test will be conducted one year prior to the full-scale study. The study
sample will be freshened in 2025 to create a nationally representative sample of twelfth-grader students. 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:25 will follow the Middle
Grades Longitudinal Study of 2017/18 (MGLS:2017) which followed the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of
2010-11 (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:25 will include surveys of students, parents, students’ math teachers, counselors, and
administrators, plus a student assessment in mathematics and reading and a brief hearing and vision test. The HS&B:21 Base-Year
Full-Scale study (BYFS) will now begin in the fall of 2021. This request is to add five notification emails about the postponement of
data collection (one each to states, districts that have agreed to participate and those that have not yet agreed, and schools that
have agreed to participate and those that have not yet agreed to participate)to the study’s communication materials (Appendix A).
Approval for the base-year full scale study data collection will be requested in a separate submission in 2020. No other planned
procedures or features of the study will change, and this submission does not change the participant burden or the cost to the
federal government associated with this program.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

For OIRA Use

April 21, 2020
**This form cannot be used to extend an expiration date
OMB 83-C

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