83C Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGE WORKSHEET
2016/20 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:16/20) 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

1850-0926 v.10

Current Record

New Record

NA

NA

21,208
34,682

21,208
34,682

93%

93%

10,435

10,435

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

NA
NA
NA

Total annual costs (O&M)
Total annualized cost requested
Difference

NA
NA
NA
NA

Explanation of difference
Program change
Adjustment

NA
NA

Other change**

The 2016/20 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:16/20) is conducted by the National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES), within the U.S. Department of Education (ED). B&B is designed to follow a cohort of students who completed the
requirements for their bachelor’s degree during the 2015-16 academic year. B&B examines students’ education and work
experiences after they complete a bachelor’s degree, with a special emphasis on the experiences of school teachers. The request
to conduct the B&B:16/20 full-scale study was approved by OMB on May 1, 2020 (1850-0926 v.9). Data collection is scheduled to
take place from Summer 2020 through Spring 2021.The B&B-eligible cohort is initially identified in the National Postsecondary
Study Aid Study (NPSAS). The first cohort (B&B:93) was identified in NPSAS:93 and consisted of students who received their
bachelor’s degree in the 1992–93 academic year. NPSAS:93 provided the base-year data and students were surveyed in 1994 for
the initial follow-up. The B&B:93 cohort was surveyed again in 1997 and 2003. The second cohort (B&B:2000) was selected from
NPSAS:2000, which became the base year for a single B&B:00/01 follow-up. The third cohort (B&B:08) was selected from
NPSAS:08, which became the base year for follow-up data collections in 2009, 2012, and the final follow-up in 2018. The fourth
cohort (B&B:16) was selected from NPSAS:16, which is the base year for follow-up data collections in 2017, 2020, and 2026
(anticipated). The B&B:93 and B&B:08 cohorts included transcript collections. (Please note that the B&B:08/18 field test and the
B&B:16/17 full-scale study were in data collection at the same time. To accommodate this overlap in timing, B&B cohorts prior to
B&B:16 are approved under OMB# 1850-0729 while the B&B:16 cohort is approved under OMB# 1850-0926.) This request includes
revisions to the student interview to include items pertaining to widespread postbaccalaureate education and employment changes
in response to the national reaction to the COVID-19 virus outbreak. In addition, communications were updated to remove the
specific name of the B&B project officer as the current project officer will be leaving NCES before data collection starts, plus a
communication was added for the calibration experiment. In addition, changes were made to the calibration experiment due to
concerns about mail theft. This request does not introduce significant changes to the estimated respondent burden or the costs to
the federal government.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

For OIRA Use

May 27, 2020

**This form cannot be used to extend an expiration date
OMB 83-C

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