83-C Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGE WORKSHEET

2021-22 TFS/PFS Questionnaire Correction 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.8

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
Otherchanges**

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, and a change request to add reminder emails to
schools for the TFS-1 operation (OMB# 1850-0617 v.7) was approved in October 2021. The 2020-21 NTPS (OMB# 1850-0598 v.28-30)
finished data collection in late July 2021, and since the TFS is a follow-up operation to the NTPS conducted the year prior, efforts have
been made to keep item language and item instructions as identical to the NTPS teacher questionnaire (TQ) as possible. While
conducting final reviews before printing, NCES discovered that a typo or error had been made on the TFS-3 questionnaire; item
instructions for eight (8) similar items had either not been updated to the NTPS item instructional language or had been mistakenly
changed during a prior round of revisions. To address this, NCES is proposing minor edits to the item instructions for eight (8) items on
the TFS-3 questionnaire. All changes in the attached materials are shown in full in the pages to follow. 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

November 1, 2021

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