83-C Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGE WORKSHEET

2021-22 TFS Teacher Questionnaire and Recruitment Material
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

Current Record

New Record

NA

NA

25,688
25,688

25,688
25,688

5,136

5,136

22%

Percent of these responses
collected electronically
Total annual hours

1850-0617 v.5

Difference
Explanation of difference
Program change

22%
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

NA
NA

Program change
Adjustment
Other changes**

The Teacher Follow-Up Survey (TFS) is a follow-up survey of public and private elementary and secondary school teachers who
participated in the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) during the previous school year. The purpose of the survey is
to determine how many teachers remained at the same school, moved to another school, or left the profession. Historically, the
TFS has also been conducted the school year following the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), the predecessor survey to the
NTPS. Redesigned from the SASS with a focus on flexibility, timeliness, and integration with other ED data, the NTPS system
allows for school, principal, and teacher characteristics to be analyzed in relation to one another. The major objectives of the
TFS are to measure the attrition rate for teachers; examine the characteristics of teachers who stayed in the teaching profession
and those who changed professions or retired; obtain activity or occupational data for those who left the position of a K-12
teacher; obtain reasons for moving to a new school or leaving the K-12 teaching profession; and collect data on job satisfaction.
The TFS/PFS main study was approved in July 2021 (OMB# 1850-0617 v.4). The 2020-21 NTPS (OMB# 1850-0598 v.28-30)
finished data collection in late July 2021, after which involved parties held ‘lessons learned’ meetings to discuss both the
preliminary analyses of the data and improvements that could be made for future collections based on this survey cycle. In
response, NCES proposes a few minor changes to improve the TFS collection. First, NCES is proposing minor item language
editing, where text which previously referred to “K-12” teachers be updated to be inclusive of “pre-K-12” teachers. Additionally,
NCES is proposing mild edits to incentive procedures for Amish/Mennonite teachers based on the 2020-21 NTPS. Finally, NCES
is proposing the addition of two more letters, one email and one non-email, to increase correspondence with sampled teachers.
These changes have no effect on respondent burden or the cost to the federal government.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

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

August 6, 2021

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