83-C Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGE WORKSHEET

2021-22 TFS/PFS Fall 2021 School 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.7

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). Two change requests to update teacher recruitment materials (OMB# 1850-0617 v.5) and add special
district contact materials (OMB# 1850-0617 v.6) were approved in August 2021. The 2020-21 NTPS (OMB# 1850-0598 v.28-30) finished
data collection in late July 2021, but while in the field, NCES added additional e-mails to the NTPS data collection plan (OMB#
1850-0598 v.36-37, 39) due to recruitment concerns given that staff may not be physically present at their schools on a regular basis
due to disruptions in building operations associated with the global coronavirus pandemic. The TFS-1, the initial TFS data collection
operation, has previously been conducted via paper and telephone follow operations and has historically had a very high response rate.
Given uncharacteristically low response rates to the TFS-1 at this time, NCES thinks that we may be seeing a repeat of the response
difficulties experienced in the NTPS data collection and is concerned that staff may not be physically present at their schools to answer
phone calls. To address this, NCES is proposing the addition of two emails, one for the TFS and one for the PFS, in order to better
reach school staff. This requested change does not affect the approved total cost to the federal government for conducting this study
nor the estimated respondent burden.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

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

October 15, 2021

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