83-C Change Sheet

PAPERWORKREDUCTIONACT
CHANGE WORKSHEET

2021-22 TFS Additional Recruitment Materials
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.11

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. 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). Several change requests have been approved since that time, to update
teacher recruitment materials, add special district contact materials, add reminder emails to schools for the TFS-1 operation, correct a
typo or error on the questionnaire, update incentive procedures and recruitment material timing, and add a web instrument for the PFS
(OMB# 1850-0617 v.5-10).
Historically, the TFS has a very high response rate; for the 2012-13 collection, the unit response rate was between 81% and 73%
depending on the questionnaire. Unfortunately, the response rates for the 2021-22 TFS collection are considerably lower. We
anticipated this response rate depression given trends for previous surveys, hence other change requests to alter our recruitment and
incentive strategy in the hopes that these strategies would be sufficient. However, as of March 15, 2022, we are in Week 9 of data
collection for the 2021-22 TFS, and the unit response rate is 53%. At Week 9 in the 2012-13 collection, the response rate was ten
percentage points higher at 63%. To address this decrease in expected response rates, NCES is proposing the addition of a new TFS
recruitment email to be sent directly from an ed.gov email address, based on a strategy employed by the School Pulse Panel, and
seeks to send text messages to all eligible teachers outside of the texting experiment. The new email from a specific and not general
email address will ideally motivate respondents to take the survey and the added text messages will provide another method of
completion for respondents, especially those who may prefer this shorter format.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

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OMB 83-C

March 22, 2022

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