83-C Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGE WORKSHEET
2019–20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20) COVID-19 Update
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

1850-0666 v.29

Current Record

New Record

NA

NA

105,214
111,614

105,214
111,614

100%

100%

131,801

131,801

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 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), part of
the U.S. Department of Education, is a cross-sectional study that examines how students and their families pay for education after
high school. The fundamental purpose of NPSAS is to create a research data set that brings together information about a variety of
programs for a large sample of undergraduate and graduate students. NPSAS provides the data for comprehensive descriptions of
the undergraduate and graduate student populations in terms of their demographic characteristics, academic programs, types of
institutions attended, attendance patterns, and employment. NPSAS is conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES) and was first implemented during the 1986–87 academic year and has been fielded every 2 to 4 years since. The 11th cycle
in the NPSAS series, NPSAS:20, will be conducted during the 2019–20 academic year and will be both nationally- and staterepresentative of undergraduate and graduate students, and a nationally-representative sample of first-time beginning students
(FTBs). It will further serve as the base year data collection for the 2020 cohort of the Beginning Postsecondary Students
Longitudinal Study (BPS:20), a study of first-time beginning postsecondary students that will be conducted three years (BPS:20/22)
and six years (BPS:20/25) after beginning their postsecondary education. The request to conduct all activities related to NPSAS:20
was approved by OMB including the latest change request in January 2020 (OMB#1859-0666 v.25-27). The NPSAS:20 enrollment
list collection from institutions takes place from October 2019 through July 2020, the student records collection will take place from
March through November 2020, and the student survey data collection will take place from February (upon OMB approval) through
early December 2020.
This request includes revisions to the student records instrument and the student interview to include items pertaining to widespread
postsecondary education changes in response to the national reaction to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, as well as revisions to a
limited set of communication materials in order to acknowledge the pandemic and its effect on postsecondary staff and students. In
addition, communications were updated to include instructions if a sample member wishes to receive their $10 prepaid incentive
(offered to Group 1 / Phase 2 sample members) via check instead of PayPal. This request also updates the scripts for the
Postsecondary Data Portal student records instructional videos. This request does not introduce changes to the estimated
respondent burden or the costs to the federal government.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

For OIRA Use

April 8, 2020
**This form cannot be used to extend an expiration date
OMB 83-C

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