Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2023-24 (ECLS-K:2024) August 2024 Materials Revision Request
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
Approved without change
11/08/2024
09/12/2024
Approved (for 2 years) consistent with the understanding that in the next revision/extension of the package (in Spring 2026), the agency will either have updated the proxy aggregate reports of the race/ethnicity question in this information collection to be in compliance with the updated SPD 15 (effective as of March 28, 2024) or the agency will include its plans for compliance, i.e., they agency will reference these plans in its Action Plan on Race and Ethnicity Data (due by or before September 28, 2025).
table that charts list comparision
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
11/30/2026
36 Months From Approved
07/31/2027
157,586
0
157,586
84,093
0
84,093
0
0
0
The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) program, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) within the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education (ED), draws together information from multiple sources to provide rich, descriptive data on child development, early learning, and school progress. The ECLS program studies deliver national data on childrens status at birth and at various points thereafter; childrens transitions to nonparental care, early care and education programs, and school; and childrens experiences and growth through the elementary grades. The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2023-24 (ECLS-K:2024) is the fourth cohort in the series of early childhood longitudinal studies. The study will advance research in child development and early learning by providing a detailed and comprehensive source of current information on childrens early learning and development, transitions into kindergarten and beyond, and progress through school. The ECLS-K:2024 will provide data about the population of children in kindergarten during the 2023-24 school year.
The request to conduct the first three national data collection rounds for the ECLS-K:2024 was approved in April 2023 (OMB# 1850-0750 v26). Revisions to procedures and materials for the first two rounds of data collection were submitted and approved in three subsequent revisions requests (OMB# 1850-0750 v27 was approved in July 2023; OMB# 1850-0750 v29 was approved in February 2024; and OMB#1850-0750 v30 was approved in July 2024). The ECLS-K:2024 fall kindergarten data collection was conducted August 2023-January 2024 and the spring kindergarten round was conducted March-July 2024. These two kindergarten data collections will be followed by a spring (March-July 2025) first-grade round. Each of these rounds of data collection involves advance school contacts, for example to conduct student sampling activities, collect teacher and school information, and locate families whose children may have moved schools. Future OMB packages are planned for the third-grade pilot test (March-July 2026), as well as for the future currently-planned round, that is the national spring (March-July 2027) third-grade round.
This current revision request (accompanied by 30 days of public comment) is to update study respondent materials, surveys, and website designs that will be used in the spring 2025 first-grade data collection activities. Many of the revisions in this package were based on analyses of the fall 2022 field test data (OMB# 1850-0750 v25) and experiences in the field from the national kindergarten rounds of collection, as well as additional discussions with design experts, all of which informed changes to the design of the surveys and assessments. Changes have been made to respondent materials to remove references to the fifth-grade round, as this collection is no longer planned. Revisions to the study instruments, the respondent materials, and websites are limited to changes to the spring first-grade materials. The current revision request contains updates to the school staff and parent survey instruments made as the specifications were programmed. This revision request also contains the specifications for the Spanish and Mandarin translations of some parent materials. Finally, this request revises the race/ethnicity items in the web and hard-copy first-grade survey instruments in line with the new federal statistical standard released on 3/28/24 (Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (SPD 15)).
The requested changes in this revision request reflect a slight increase in the cost to the federal government, but do not change the estimated respondent burden for conducting this study.
US Code:
20 USC 9573
Name of Law: Education Sciences Reform Act
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.
ECLS Att A-2 Spring 1 R Materials v31.docx
ECLS Part B v31 tracked.pdf
ECLS Attachment H redacted v31.xlsx
ECLS A4-b Presentation for Parents.pptx
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