Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGE SHEET
School Pulse Panel (SPP) 2023-24 September and October Questionnaire Items
and August-January Communications Change Request
Agency/Subagency

OMB Control Number

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

1850-0975 v.3

Current Record

New Record

NA

NA

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

1,235
53,955

1,235
53,955

100%

100%

10,175

10,175

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 is an ongoing study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), part of the
Institute of Education Sciences (IES), within the United States Department of Education, to collect extensive data on current and
emerging issues concerning students and staff in U.S. public primary, middle, high, and combined-grade schools. Specifically,
the survey will ask school office staff about topics such as staffing, college and career readiness, school improvement plans,
tutoring, summer programs, facilities, learning strategies and recovery, after-school programs, and world and dual language
programs. The SPP has become one of the nation’s main sources of timely and reliable data on issues concerning the
education environment, as reported by principals in U.S. public schools.
The SPP monthly data collection went through a 60-day public comment period, followed by a 30-day public comment period
(OMB# 1850-0975 v.2) and was formally cleared on July 31, 2023. As described in the documents in that package, after clearing
monthly questionnaires, the SPP program regularly submits change memos to finalize the preliminary items cleared as part of
regular revisions.
The purpose of this memo is to request approval for changes to the September-October SPP questionnaires and the AugustJanuary and generic communication materials. The items that were submitted as a part of the 30-day public comment period
were undergoing cognitive testing at the time the package was out for public comment. During this same public comment period,
NCES leadership wanted to implement minor changes to the communication materials. The communication materials follow the
same basic structure for each monthly collection. If a change affected the communications materials in the same way across all
months, for brevity, we show an example of that change for one month and label these modifications “global changes.” In the
communications that were submitted for the 30-day comment period, the phrase “increase the provision of…” was used
frequently throughout the materials. NCES leadership expressed interest in removing that language. Those changes are shown
in the attached change memo.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

August 1, 2023

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