SPP 2024-25 Dec24-Feb25 Change Sheet 0969 v17

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGE SHEET
School Pulse Panel (SPP) 2024-25
December 2024 - February 2025 Surveys Change Request
Agency/Subagency

OMB Control Number

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

1850-0969 v.17

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

Other change**

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 leaders about topics such as staffing, college and career readiness, artificial intelligence, tutoring, summer and afterschool programs, facilities, and learning strategies and recovery, among other topics. 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# 1850-0969 v.13), and was formally cleared on July 1, 2024. AA change request (v.15) was cleared in August 2024 to make
changes to the August 2024, September 2024, and October 2024 instruments, informed by cognitive testing results with school
staff. A 30-day public comment period package (v.16) was cleared in October 2024 that included new items (within the scope of
the research domains previously established) to be collected on the November 2024, December 2024, and January 2025
instruments, as well as planned items for the rest of the study year, through June 2025. The purpose of this memo is to request
approval for changes to the December 2024, January 2025, and February 2025 SPP questionnaires, informed by cognitive testing
results with school staff.
Changes to the December 2024, January 2025, and February 2025 questionnaires that are being made in response to the
cognitive testing are detailed below. Many of the changes were made to improve item clarity and include such actions as modifying
response options based on recommendations from the cognitive testing. The costs to the government have not changed as a
result of this amendment, nor has the projected respondent burden. Below, for each month, we provide explanations for our
changes. No changes were made to November 2024 or March-June 2025 instruments at this time.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

October 28, 2024

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