FOLLOW-UP SURVEYS TO THE 2020-21 NTPS: 2021-22 Teacher Follow-Up Survey (TFS) and 2021-22 Principal Follow-Up
Reinstatement without change of a previously approved collection
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Regular
05/18/2021
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Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
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This request is to conduct data collection for the two follow-up surveys to the 2020-21 National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) â the 2021-22 Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS) and the 2021-22 Principal Follow-up Survey (PFS). The 2021-22 TFS is a one-year follow up of a subsample of teachers who responded to the 2020-21 NTPS, and the 2021-22 PFS is a one-year follow up of principals who responded to the 2020-21 NTPS. TFS and PFS are conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), within the U.S. Department of Education (ED). The 2021-22 TFS and 2021-22 PFS, like earlier TFS and PFS collections, will measure the one-year attrition rates of teachers and principals, respectively, who leave the profession and will permit comparisons of stayers, movers, and leavers to fulfill the legislative mandate for NCES to report on the âcondition of education in the United States.â âStayersâ are teachers or principals who remain in the same school between the NTPS year of data collection and the follow-up year. âMoversâ are teachers or principals who stay in the profession but change schools between the NTPS year and the follow-up year. âLeaversâ are NTPS respondents who leave the teaching or principal profession between the NTPS year and the follow-up year. The 2021-22 TFS analysis file will include TFS data in addition to data collected in the 2020-21 NTPS on teacher characteristics, qualifications, perceptions of the school environment and the teaching profession, and a host of other topics. Prior TFS data have played an important role in improving the understanding of teacher supply and demand and the conditions that affect the balance between the two. NTPS and TFS provide national data on turnover in the teacher workforce, including rates of entry and attrition from teaching, sources and characteristics of newly hired teachers, and characteristics and destinations of Leavers. These data help shift the debate from the issue of teacher quantity to teacher quality; that is, from a focus on teacher shortages measured in terms of the numbers of teaching positions left vacant to the qualifications of teachers who are hired and retained to fill teaching positions. The cross-sectional repeated design of TFS allows the analysis of trends related to these topics. The 2021-22 PFS analysis file will include PFS data in addition to data on principal characteristics, qualifications, and perceptions of the school environment from data collected in the 2020-21 NTPS. Together, NTPS and PFS will provide national data on turnover in the principal workforce, including rates of entry and attrition from principalship, sources and characteristics of newly hired principals, characteristics and destinations of leavers, and thanks to the cross-sectional repeated design of PFS, analyses of trends related to these topics. This clearance request is to conduct both 2021-22 NTPS follow-up surveys (TFS and PFS), including all recruitment and data collection activities. This request seeks authorization for 2021-22 TFS and 2021-22 PFS under the TFS single OMB number (OMB# 1850-0617).
US Code:
20 USC 9573
Name of Law: Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002
This request shows an increase in the estimated response burden for both the TFS and the PFS. The burden hours for TFS have increased from the last clearance, 3,133 hours, to 4,444 hours and for PFS from 603 hours to 692 hours due to the inclusion of private schools and teachers in the 2020-21 NTPS, and therefore both of its follow-up studies. Survey length for both TFS and PFS remains unchanged from the previous administration. Finally, because both the TFS and PFS are follow-up studies to the NTPS, we are seeking reinstatement of OMB number 1850-0617 to represent both studies, independent of NTPSâs OMB number 1850-0598.
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.
Part C - 2021-22 TFS PFS_revised.docx
2020-2021 TFS (Stayers and Movers)