83C Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGEWORKSHEET

School Pulse Panel 2022 September
Questionnaire Items Change Request

Agency/Subagency

OMB Control Number

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

1850-0969 v.7

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 further change requests (v. 5-6) cleared in July and
August 2022.
The purpose of this memo is to outline three groups of modifications to the September instrument. (1) Given recent changes to the CDC
guidelines (August 11, 2022) for who should quarantine, one additional quarantine item to gather information on the conditions under
which schools are requiring individuals to quarantine was added. (2) In a recent stakeholder briefing summarizing key findings from the
June data collection, questions arose as to what schools actually did during summer 2022 (versus what they anticipated doing, as
collected in June). In response to those stakeholder needs and requests, the SPP team developed new items to gather information
following-up on how schools operated their summer programs. These new items are modeled directly from the June 2022 items; the
response options are identical across both sets of items. (3) Finally, as noted in a previous change (v. 6), after-school items were moved
to September to allow the SPP team to revise items so that they are better suited for a possible monthly collection (as a response to this
new after-school funding initiative). Those revisions are detailed here, as are two new items that gather more detailed information on the
frequency and usage of after-school programs being offered to students. 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 17, 2022

For OIRA Use
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**This form cannot be used to extend an expiration date
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