National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2021 Schools and Teacher Questionnaire Special Study
Revision of a currently approved collection
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Emergency
03/19/2021
03/18/2021
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Requested
Previously Approved
6 Months From Approved
08/31/2021
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35,443
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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 NCESâ 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.
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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
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Carrie Clarady 202 245-6347
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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