83C Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGEWORKSHEET

School Pulse Panel 2022 August and September
Questionnaire Items Follow-Up Change Request
Agency/Subagency

OMB Control Number

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences

1850-0969 v.6

Current Record

New Record

NA

NA

720
17,280

720
17,280

100%

100%

4,752

4,752

Agency form number(s)
Annual reporting and record keeping hour
burden
Number of respondent
Total annual responses
Percent of these responses
collected electronically
Total annual hours
Difference
Explanation of difference
Program change
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
Difference

NA

NA

NA
NA

NA
NA
NA

Explanation of difference
Program change
Adjustment

NA
NA

Otherchange**

The School Pulse Panel (SPP) is a monthly 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, along with other priority items for the White House, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, and Department of Education program offices. 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.
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. 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 district staff and principals in U.S. public schools. Initially cleared as an emergency (OMB#
1850-0963), the SPP monthly data collection (OMB #1850-0969) was formally cleared in April 2022, with change requests (OMB#
1850-0969 v.2-3) clearing the May and June 2022 Questionnaires in April and May, respectively, and a revision (complete with public
comment period; v.4) containing projected questionnaire items for August and September 2022 as well as a change request (v.5)
were cleared in July 2022.
The purpose of this change request is to outline a modification to previously cleared materials to push the After-School Program
section to September and move the Technology/Digital Literacy section to August. This change is being made in response to the
stakeholder briefing summarizing key findings from the June data collection, where the plan to collect information on after-school
programs in August was shared. In anticipation of the upcoming collection to capture these data, White House staff expressed a need
to collect this information repeatedly each month (as a response to this new after-school funding initiative) and requested inclusion of
more detailed information on the frequency of after-school programs being offered to students. To accommodate this request, the
SPP team swapped the after-school program section with the technology/digital literacy section to allow for more time to modify the
after-school program items to ensure they meet the needs of the stakeholder request. NCES is still determining whether collecting
this information repeatedly is feasible. Modifications to the after-school program items will be submitted as a forthcoming change
request. The costs to the government have not changed as a result of this amendment, nor has the projected respondent burden.

Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

August 2, 2022

For OIRA Use

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**This form cannot be used to extend an expiration date
OMB 83-C