School Pulse Panel 2022
August and September Questionnaire Items Follow-up Change
Request
No
material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved
collection
No
Regular
08/03/2022
Requested
Previously Approved
07/31/2025
07/31/2025
17,280
17,280
4,752
4,752
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. The SPP monthly
data collection (OMB #1850-0969) was formally cleared in April
2022, with change requests (OMB# 1850-0969 v.2-3) to clear the May
and June 2022 Questionnaires cleared shortly thereafter. This
collection allows NCES to comply with the January 21, 2021 EO 14000
Executive Order on Supporting the Reopening and Continuing
Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers.
Information is collected monthly 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, along with other priority items for the
White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and
Department of Education program offices. The SPP study is extremely
important particularly now that COVID-19 has not waned, and the
pulse model is one that the agency will need after the pandemic
subsides for other quick-turnaround data needs. The purpose of this
submission is to propose and seek 30-day public comment on new
items (within the scope of research domains both previously
established and minimally revised in this request) to be collected
on the August and September instruments (Appendix B.4). These items
are considered very close to final and will go through minimal
testing with school personnel to examine any comprehension concerns
with item wording. Feedback from this testing, as well as
additional input from SPP stakeholders, will result in
modifications and additions that will be reflected in future change
requests. Some previously approved items that are considered core
content will be collected in August and September. Specifically,
items on learning modes, quarantine, and some mitigation items will
be repeated to maintain trend over time. Screener questions
confirming point of contact information are also included in this
revision. We would like to ask for updated contact information at
the end of each survey to ensure we have the most up to date
information for mailings and communications. Lastly, we plan to now
add schools in the outlying areas to the sample, as described in
revisions to Part B. All current study operations will be the same
for the outlying areas, but we do need to send an introductory
email to school principals. That email has been added to Appendix
A. There are no changes to burden or costs associated with this
revision.
US Code:
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USC 9573 Name of Law: Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002
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.