83-C Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGE WORKSHEET

School Pulse Panel Preliminary Activities Change Request
Agency/Subagency

OMB Control Number

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences

1850-0963 v.3

Current Record

New Record

NA

NA

3,400
4,120

3,120
3,940

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
Difference

100%

100%

3,086

3,072
-14
NA

NA

NA

NA
NA

NA
NA
NA

Explanation of difference
Program change
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
Difference
Explanation of difference
Program change
Adjustment

NA
NA

Otherchange**

The School Pulse Panel is a new study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), part of the
Institute of Education Sciences (IES), within the United States Department of Education, to collect extensive data on issues
concerning the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students and staff in U.S. public primary, middle, high, and combinedgrade schools. The survey will ask school district staff and sampled school principals about topics such as instructional
mode offered; enrollment counts of subgroups of students using various instructional modes; learning loss mitigation
strategies; safe and healthy school mitigation strategies; special education services; use of technology; use of federal relief
funds; and information on staffing. Because this data collection is extremely high priority and time sensitive, it underwent
Emergency Clearance and only underwent a 30-day public comment period after clearance has been granted. The
administration of the School Pulse Panel study is in direct response to President Biden’s Executive Order 14000:
Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers. It will be one of
the nation’s few sources of reliable data on a wealth of information focused on school reopening efforts, virus spread
mitigation strategies, services offered for students and staff, and technology use, as reported by school district staff and
principals in U.S. public schools. About 1200 public elementary, middle, high, and combined-grade schools will be selected
to participate in a panel where school and district staff will be asked to provide requested data monthly during the 2021-22
school years. This approach provides the ability to collect detailed information on various topics while also assessing
changes in reopening efforts over time. Given the high demand for data collection during this time, the content of the
survey may change on a quarterly basis. This change request updates the burden estimate in the recruitment materials
(including the special district generic application and letters/emails) to a more accurate estimated time for completion. The
burden estimate will be updated from “4-5 hours” to “2-3 hours” and “240 minutes” to “180 minutes” throughout recruitment
and communications materials. Additionally, we have updated the special district generic application to more prominently refer
to the reserve sample with replacement schools as these districts will have reserve sample schools (these districts were not
contacted in the initial invitations). Finally, in this change request we are submitting a response to 30D public comments.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

August 20, 2021

For OIRA Use
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**This form cannot be used to extend an expiration date
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