83C Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGE WORKSHEET

2023-24 National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS 2023-24)
School Conditional Incentive Threshold 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

108,478
108,478

108,478
108,478

75%

Percent of these responses
collected electronically
Total annual hours

1850-0598 v.44

52,092

Difference
Explanation of difference
Program change

75%

52,092
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
Otherchange**

The National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), conducted every two to three years by the National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES), is a system of related questionnaires that provides descriptive data on the context of elementary and
secondary education. Redesigned from the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) with a focus on flexibility, timeliness, and
integration with other ED data, the NTPS system allows for school, principal, and teacher characteristics to be analyzed in
relation to one another. NTPS is an in-depth, nationally representative survey of first through twelfth grade public and private
school teachers, principals, and schools. Kindergarten teachers in schools with at least a first grade are also surveyed. NTPS
utilizes core content and a series of rotating modules to allow timely collection of important education trends as well as trend
analysis. Topics covered include characteristics of teachers, principals, schools, teacher training opportunities, retention,
retirement, hiring, and shortages. The NTPS 2023-24 preliminary activities were approved in December 2022 (OMB# 1850-0598
v.41-42). OMB approved the main study for 2023-24 in June 2023 (OMB# 1850-0598 v.43). This change request modifies an
experiment that was specified for the full collection, simply by lowering the threshold eligible for incentivizing schools from 90% to
75%. During the 2017-18 NTPS, we found that small, pre-paid cash incentives increased teacher response rates and the
representativeness of responding teachers. We planned additional experiments during the 2020-21 NTPS, which were canceled
in the fall of 2020 shortly after the start of data collection due to operational challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. For this
collection, our data collection plan builds upon our earlier experimental findings and will inform future collections of the NTPS and
longitudinal follow-up surveys. In particular, we will test promised incentives with sampled teachers in two different ways. These
changes are explained in full in the memo included in this package. These changes do not affect the cost to the government or
participant burden.

Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

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

December 18, 2023

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