Notice2024-10973
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; School Pulse Panel 2024-25 Data Collection
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Published
May 20, 2024
Issuing agencies
Education Department
Abstract
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Department is proposing a revision of a currently approved information collection request (ICR).
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 98 (Monday, May 20, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43839-43840]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-10973]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED-2024-SCC-0032]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; School Pulse Panel 2024-25 Data Collection
AGENCY: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Department of
Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995,
the Department is proposing a revision of a currently approved
information collection request (ICR).
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
June 20, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for proposed
information collection requests should be submitted within 30 days of
publication of this notice. Click on this link <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a> to access the site. Find this information collection request
(ICR) by selecting ``Department of Education'' under ``Currently Under
Review,'' then check the ``Only Show ICR for Public Comment'' checkbox.
<a href="http://Reginfo.gov">Reginfo.gov</a> provides two links to view documents related to this
information collection request. Information collection forms and
instructions may be found by clicking on the ``View Information
Collection (IC) List'' link. Supporting statements and other supporting
documentation may be found by clicking on the ``View Supporting
Statement and Other Documents'' link.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to
collection activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, (202) 245-6347.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department is especially interested in
public comment addressing the following issues: (1) is this collection
necessary to the proper functions of the Department; (2) will this
information be processed and used in a timely manner; (3) is the
estimate of burden accurate; (4) how might the Department enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and
(5) how might the Department minimize the burden of this collection on
the respondents, including through the use of information technology.
Please note that written comments received in response to this notice
will be considered public records.
Title of Collection: School Pulse Panel 2024-25 Data Collection.
OMB Control Number: 1850-0969.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved ICR.
Respondents/Affected Public: State, Local, and Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 53,955.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 10,175.
Abstract: The School Pulse Panel (SPP) is a data collection that
was originally designed to collect voluntary responses from a
nationally representative sample of public schools to better understand
how schools, students, and educators were responding to the ongoing
stressors of the coronavirus pandemic. Due to the immediate need to
collect information from schools during the pandemic to satisfy the
requirement of Executive Order 14000, an emergency clearance was issued
to develop and field the first several monthly collections of the SPP
in 2021 and a full review of the SPP data collection was performed
under the traditional clearance review process in 2022 (OMB#1850-0969).
SPPs innovative design and timely dissemination of findings have been
used and cited frequently among Department of Education senior
leadership, the White House Domestic Policy Council, the USDAs Food and
Nutrition Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Congressional deliberations, and the media. The ongoing, growing
interest by stakeholders resulted in the request for dedicated funding
to create an established NCES quick-turnaround data collection vehicle
to become a mainstay for NCES. Funding for a mainstay collection was
approved in late 2022, and NCES conducted a new collection during the
2023-24 school year. The purpose of this request is for a full review
of the 2024-25 SPP data collection under the traditional clearance
review process.
For the 2024-25 school year, the survey will ask school staff about
a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to, staffing,
learning recovery, tutoring, usage of federal funds, facilities,
transportation, school environment issues, and overall principal and
staff experiences, in addition to repeating items from the previous
collections. It is planned that some new content will be rotated in
(and some rotated out) monthly. This package includes details regarding
the methodology and operations, as well as potential content areas and
an item bank of potential items that can be asked any month.
The School Pulse Panel study is one of the few reliable, nationally
representative, quick-turnaround studies that produces data on U.S.
public schools. The sample design for the 2024-25 collection will
roughly be the same as the 2023-24 collection, with 4,000 public
elementary, middle, high, and combined-grade schools in an initial
sample and 4,000 public elementary, middle, high, and combined-grade
schools in a reserve sample. These schools will be selected via a
random stratified sampling approach.
This submission has undergone a 60-day public comment period and is
now submitted for an additional 30-day public comment period. We have
made revisions to all documents that are part of this request. We have
added instruments for the August, September, and October 2024 surveys
(Appendix C1) and split the Item Bank into two parts; Appendix B1 will
be an item bank for the current administration SPP 2024-2025, while
Appendix B2 contains all questionnaires from previous administrations,
including all items that may be revived in future months of SPP 2024-
25. Items in Appendix C1 are currently being tested and are considered
draft until the testing is complete; final items will be submitted to
OMB through a change request. Subsequent quarterly instruments will
also be posted for 30-day comment in the months immediately preceding
their administration, potentially followed by change requests to allow
for small changes in items as deemed necessary by cognitive testing.
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Dated: May 15, 2024.
Stephanie Valentine,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance, Governance and
Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning,
Evaluation and Policy Development.
[FR Doc. 2024-10973 Filed 5-17-24; 8:45 am]
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