This request is to conduct data collection for the 2016-17 Principal Follow-up Survey (PFS), a one-year follow up of principals who responded to the 2015-16 National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS). PFS is conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), within the U.S. Department of Education (ED). The PFS has been conducted two times previously: beginning in 2008-09 as a follow up to the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) in 2007-08 (OMB# 1850-0598 v.5) and, subsequently, as a follow-up to SASS in 2012-2013 (OMB# 1850-0598 v.9). During the 2015-16 school year, NCES conducted the first NTPS (OMB #1850-0598 v.11), a redesign of SASS to improve the flexibility, efficiency, and timeliness of NCES data on the nationâs K-12 schools, principals, and teachers. The 2016-17 PFS will be the first to launch from the redesigned NTPS. The PFS survey design and content remain highly consistent with earlier administrations. The 2016-17 PFS, like earlier PFS collections, will measure the one-year attrition rates of principals who leave the profession and will permit comparisons of stayers, movers, and leavers. âStayersâ are principals who remain in the same school between the NTPS year of data collection and the follow-up year; âmoversâ are principals who stay in the profession but change schools between the NTPS year and the follow-up year; and âleaversâ are NTPS respondents who leave the principal profession between the NTPS year and the follow-up year. The data collected in the 2016-17 PFS will be combined with data collected in the 2015-16 NTPS on principal characteristics, qualifications, and perceptions of the school environment. Together, NTPS and PFS provide national data on turnover in the principal workforce, including rates of entry and attrition from principalship, sources and characteristics of newly hired principals, and characteristics and destinations of leavers. The cross-sectional repeated design of PFS allows for analyses of trends related to these topics.
US Code:
20 USC 9543
Name of Law: Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002
This is a new collection and, as such, represents an increase in respondent burden. However, please note that PFS has been conducted two times previously: beginning in 2008-09 as a follow up to the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) in 2007-08 (OMB# 1850-0598 v.5) and, subsequently, as a follow-up to SASS in 2012-2013 (OMB# 1850-0598 v.9). The 1850-0598 OMB# has been primarily used for SASS data collections and is now used for SASSâs redesigned successor survey, NTPS. Given that NTPS will be conducted every other year, to avoid confusion between NTPS and its follow up studies, we are seeking a new OMB number for PFS, which will be used for all PFS clearance submissions going forward.
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.
Attachment A - PFS 2016-17 Respondent Contact Materials.docx
Principal Follow-Up Survey (PFS 2016-17) to the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS 2015-16)