Justification for Non Substantive Change to Grantee Survey

REQUEST FOR Non-Substantive Change to Evaluation of youth careerconnect, OMB 1291-0003

This non-substantive change request is to update the Grantee Survey for the Evaluation of Youth CareerConnect (YCC) study, OMB Control Number 1291-0003. The first round of the survey was fielded in spring/summer 2015 and the second round will be fielded in spring/summer 2017. The changes do not affect study design or change burden estimates but do streamline its administration and ensure that questions are relevant. All changes were pretested across a range of YCC grantees and had no burden increase.

Updates fell into two categories. First, some questions were moved into a short telephone screener that will be conducted prior to the survey’s fielding. To maintain comparability between two rounds of surveying, we will ask the grantees to answer questions for the same program in the second round of surveying. The screener is an efficient way to confirm that the school still offers the program and to track program changes between the survey rounds. Second, the survey was revised to drop questions that are no longer relevant and to clarify information on the services students would receive if they do not enroll in YCC.

The changes to the survey are documented in the supplemental document Survey Changes_Round 1 YCC Grantee Survey with Comments and the new instruments have been updated as the final versions of the IC.