Change Memo

U NITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

National Center for Education Statistics

March 16, 2021

MEMORANDUM

To: Bob Sivinski, OMB

From: Pat Etienne, NCES

Through: Carrie Clarady, NCES

Re: National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2021 School Survey Vaccination Question Change Request (OMB# 1850-0957 v.3)

The requested Emergency Clearance for the NAEP 2021 School Survey (OMB# 1850-0957) was approved by OMB in February 2021 and is currently posted on the Federal Register for public review. A previous change request in February 2021 (OMB# 1850-0957 v.2) added Spanish translations of communication materials and the survey instrument to this package. The purpose of this Change Request is to add to the current package the English and Spanish questions pertaining to teacher vaccinations. The following appendix has been revised:

• Appendix B: NAEP 2021 School Survey Questionnaires

  • Page 7, added new English vaccination question, #10

  • Page 12, added new Spanish vaccination question, #10

NCES previously requested an emergency clearance to allow us to comply with the January 21, 2021 Executive Order on Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers, which states that the Department of Education must “coordinate with the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences to facilitate, consistent with applicable law, the collection of data necessary to fully understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students and educators, including data on the status of in-person learning. These data shall be disaggregated by student demographics, including race, ethnicity, disability, English-language-learner status, and free or reduced lunch status or other appropriate indicators of family income.” Normal clearance procedures would not allow IES to comply with the intent of this EO. NCES has published a Federal Register Notice soliciting 30 days of public comment on this collection concurrent with data collection.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), in the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, will oversee the survey collection, which is designed to collect vital data with the least possible burden on schools. With the voluntary participation of educators and school leaders across the country, NCES will be able to report the percentages of students who received instruction remotely, in-person, or in a hybrid instructional mode for selected districts, states, and the nation. NCES will provide these data for various student groups, in addition to information about attendance rates, in an online dashboard.

Data will be collected monthly beginning February 2021 and running through June 2021. The survey will collect data from approximately 3,500 schools that enroll fourth-graders and an equal number of schools that enroll eighth-graders. A school coordinator will be identified in each school to complete the survey, which will take 30 minutes of each coordinator’s time for each month’s response to the survey. The study will maximize the use of federal dollars by utilizing the existing online data collection systems and infrastructure used for the Nation's Report Card, also known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The Spanish materials added to the package with the previous amendment will be utilized in Puerto Rico.

The burden and costs to the government have not changed as a result of this amendment. Detailed descriptions of the above-described changes are on next page.

Changes to Appendix B

(p.7) English vaccination question

10. As of [last day of previous month], approximately what percentage of teachers in your school had received at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine?

Please select the percent of teachers: [drop down]

0%

1-10%

11-20%

21-30%

31-40%

41-50%

51-60%

61-70%

71-80%

81-90%

91-99%

100%

I don’t know.

(p.12) Spanish vaccination question

10. Hasta el [último día del mes anterior], ¿aproximadamente qué porcentaje de maestros en su escuela había recibido por lo menos una dosis de una vacuna contra el COVID-19?

Por favor seleccione el porcentaje de maestros: [drop down]

0%

1 a 10%

11 a 20%

21 a 30%

31 a 40%

41 a 50%

51 a 60%

61 a 70%

71 a 80%

81 a 90%

91 a 99%

100%

No sé.

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