National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP) 2021 Schools and Teacher Questionnaire
Special Study
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Emergency
03/19/2021
03/18/2021
Requested
Previously Approved
6 Months From Approved
08/31/2021
50,294
1
35,443
1
0
0
NCES requests emergency review under 5
CFR 1320.13(a) to collect voluntary responses from individual
teachers and schools via an online survey to better understand the
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students and educators. The need
for immediate clearance is due to the time sensitivity of this data
collection, as the 2020-2021 school year will conclude nationally
within the next 3 months. Normal clearance procedures would not
allow IES to collect this data before schools have completed the
2020-21 school year, and the opportunity for data collection will
have been lost. NCES will publish a Federal Register Notice
soliciting 30 days of public comment on this collection concurrent
with data collection. The National Assessment of Educational
Progress (NAEP), conducted by the National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES), is a federally authorized survey of student
achievement at grades 4, 8, and 12 in various subject areas, such
as mathematics, reading, writing, science, U.S. history, civics,
geography, economics, technology and engineering literacy (TEL),
and the arts. The National Assessment of Educational Progress
Authorization Act (Public Law 107-279 Title III, section 303)
requires the assessment to collect data on specified student groups
and characteristics, including information organized by
race/ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, disability, and
limited English proficiency. It requires fair and accurate
presentation of achievement data and permits the collection of
background, noncognitive, or descriptive information that is
related to academic achievement and aids in fair reporting of
results. The intent of the law is to provide representative sample
data on student achievement for the nation, the states, and
subpopulations of students and to monitor progress over time.
Previously, the NAEP 2021 assessments were approved (OMB# 1850-0928
v.21). Subsequently, the Commissioner postponed the 2021 main NAEP
student assessments and an announcement was published in the
Federal Register in an Emergency Clearance Package (OMB#
1850-0956). This current Amendment reflects NCES’ decision to
continue to collect voluntary responses from teachers and schools
via online survey questionnaires. Collecting this information will
allow NCES to capture data about educational experiences during the
COVID-19 outbreak and the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the
2019-2020 and current school years. The final versions of the
teacher and school survey questionnaires as well as the Spanish
translations were previously approved (OMB# 1850-0928 v.21),
although they have been edited for this special administration. A
previous emergency clearance (OMB#1850-0957) in February 2021
allowed work on the NAEP 2021 School Survey to begin. The NAEP 2021
School Survey is a monthly collection of data from 3,500 schools
that gathers information about opening status (ranging from fully
in-person to fully remote), the hours of instruction for students,
and how enrollment and attendance rates vary by a number of social
stratifying factors including race/ethnicity, socio-economic
status, English learner status, and disability status. The work
proposed in this package, the NAEP 2021 School and Teacher
Questionnaire Special Study, is a more in-depth data collection.
Although it will collect data only once, it allows NCES a deeper
and richer understanding of how schools and teachers are faring
while operating during a pandemic. Because the instruments are very
much the same as the instruments used during every administration
of NAEP, the data collected will also allow the federal government
to better understand trends in schools across and through the
global coronavirus pandemic.
NCES requests emergency
clearance due to the time sensitivity of this data collection, as
the 2020-2021 school year will conclude nationally within the next
3 months. Normal clearance procedures would not allow IES to
collect this data before schools have completed the 2020-21 school
year, and the opportunity for data collection will have been lost.
NCES will publish a Federal Register Notice soliciting 30 days of
public comment on this collection concurrent with data
collection.
PL:
Pub.L. 107 - 279 303 Name of Law: National Assessment of
Educational Progress Authorization Act
The reason for the change in
burden from the last amendment submission is due to the
cancellation of NAEP student assessments in 2021. Burden for
teachers, principals, and school coordinators have been revised to
capture the estimated burden for participating in the online survey
questionnaires.
$6,086,800
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Carrie Clarady 202
245-6347
No
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.
NAEP 2021 STQ Emergency Justifiction and Change Memo.docx
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2021 Schools and Teacher Questionnaire Special Study