83-C Change Sheet

PAPERWORKREDUCTIONACT
CHANGE WORKSHEET

2021-22 PFS Web Instrument 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

25,688
25,688

25,688
25,688

5,136

5,136

22%

Percent of these responses
collected electronically
Total annual hours

1850-0617 v.10

Difference
Explanation of difference
Program change

22%
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
Otherchanges**

The Principal Follow-Up Survey (PFS) is a follow-up survey of public and private elementary and secondary school principals who
participated in the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) during the previous school year. The purpose of the survey is to
determine how many principals remained at the same school, moved to another school, or left the profession. It was last fielded in
2016-17, after the 2015-16 NTPS. The major objectives of the PFS are to measure the attrition rate for principals; examine the
characteristics of principals who stayed in the profession and those who changed professions or retired and obtain activity or
occupational data for those who left the position of a K-12 principal. The TFS/PFS main study was approved in July 2021 (OMB#
1850-0617 v.4). Two change requests to update teacher recruitment materials (OMB# 1850-0617 v.5) and add special district contact
materials (OMB# 1850-0617 v.6) were approved in August 2021, and change requests to add reminder emails to schools (OMB#
1850-0617 v.7), correct errors on the TFS-3 questionnaire (OMB# 1850-0617 v.8), and update incentive procedures and recruitment
material timing (OMB# 1850-0617 v.9) were approved in October & November 2021 and January 2022. Historically, the PFS has a very
high response rate; for the 2016-17 collection, the unit response rate was over 90%. Given the high response rates and the fact that the
PFS is only one item long, the survey team has historically not developed a web instrument. Unfortunately, the response rates for the
2021-22 PFS collection are considerably lower, which was unanticipated given past trends. As of February 23, 2022, we are in Week 5
of data collection for the 2021-22 PFS, and the unit response rate is 53%. At Week 5 in the 2016-17 collection, the response rate was
over ten percentage points higher at 69%. To address this surprising decrease in expected response rates, NCES is proposing the
addition of a PFS web instrument on Qualtrics and the addition of two new versions of a PFS recruitment emails (an initial email and a
reminder email) that include the new Qualtrics link. Only a subset of PFS sampled principals will receive the Qualtrics link, replacing the
‘late texting’ experimental group in the texting experiment that is further described in Part A. The new web instrument will ideally provide
another method of completion for respondents, especially those who have may prefer web to paper. This requested change does not
affect the approved total cost to the federal government for conducting this study nor the estimated respondent burden.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

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

February 24, 2022

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