New
collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)
No
Regular
03/03/2022
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
17,280
0
4,752
0
0
0
The School Pulse Panel (SPP) is a new
data collection originally designed to collect voluntary responses
from a nationally representative sample of public schools to better
understand how schools, students, and educators are responding to
the ongoing stressors of the coronavirus pandemic. Due to the
immediate need to collect information from schools during the
pandemic to satisfy the requirement of Executive Order 14000, an
emergency clearance (OMB# 1850-0963) was issued to develop and
field the first several monthly collections of the SPP. This
submission is seeking a request for a full review of the SPP data
collection under the traditional clearance review process. The
School Pulse Panel is conducted by the National Center for
Education Statistics (NCES), part of the Institute of Education
Sciences (IES), within the United States Department of Education.
The purpose of the study is 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 combined-grade
schools. The survey asks school staff about a wide range of topics,
including but not limited to instructional mode offered; enrollment
counts of subgroups of students using various instructional modes;
strategies to address pandemic-related learning needs; safe and
healthy school mitigation strategies; mental health services; use
of technology; information on staffing, nutrition services,
principal/parental/student/staff concerns, absenteeism, and overall
principal experiences. It is planned that some new content will be
rotated in (and some rotated out) monthly. This package includes
items that were fielded as part of the January, February, and March
collections, as well as proposed new content to be collected in
April, May, and June. Subsequent new content area additions
(estimated to take place on a quarterly basis) will take place as
revisions with 30-day public comment periods for each subsequent
quarterly collection, and may be followed by change requests to
further refine items for each month. 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 is
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 principals and other staff in
U.S. public schools. About 2400 (1200 in an initial sample and 1200
in a reserve sample) public elementary, middle, high, and
combined-grade schools have been initially selected to participate
in a panel where school 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 will likely change monthly.
US Code:
20
USC 9573 Name of Law: Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002
This is a new collection,
therefore all burden is new. This results in a program change
increase in burden and responses of 4,752 hours and 17,280
responses.
$12,041,100
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Carrie Clarady 202
245-6347
No
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.