83-C Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGE WORKSHEET

2021-22 TFS/PFS Timing and Incentive 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.9

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 change requests to add reminder emails to
schools (OMB# 1850-0617 v.7) and correct errors on the TFS-3 questionnaire (OMB# 1850-0617 v.8) were approved in October &
November 2021. In this request, NCES is proposing minor edits to recruitment materials to adjust time-specific language, a shift in the
opt-in rate for the TFS contingency incentive as well as a shift from a promise to a pre-paid contingency incentive and a decrease in the
amount of the incentive, the removal of letters that are now not needed, and the addition of two new versions of a TFS reminder email
differentiated by teacher status. Changes are also proposed for the timing of the PFS and TFS mailouts and experiments, as well as the
contact method of the third outreach effort of the texting experiment. Additionally, all Amish recruitment materials were removed from
Appendix A since no Amish teachers were sampled for the TFS – this was not purposeful, but a byproduct of the small number of Amish
teachers eligible to be sampled based on the NTPS status. 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

January 20, 2022

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