The scope of this information
collection request will primarily cover descriptive information
gathered from education and training projects that are funded by
NSF. NSF will primarily use the data from this collection for
program planning, management, and audit purposes to respond to
queries from the Congress, the public, NSF's external merit
reviewers who serve as advisers, including Committees of Visitors
(COVs), the NSF's Office of the Inspector General and as a basis
for either internal or third-party valuations of individual
programs. The collections will generally include three categories
of descriptive data: (1) Staff and project participants (data that
are also necessary to determine individual-level treatment and
control groups for future third-party study or for internal
evaluation); (2) project implementation characteristics (also
necessary for future use to identify well-matched comparison
groups); and (3) project outputs (necessary to measure baseline for
pre- and post- NSF-funding level impacts).
US Code:
42 USC 1861 et seq. Name of Law: National Science Foundation
Act of 1950, as amended
The decrease in respondents is
due largely to (1) transitions in several programs that are no
longer making new awards (i.e., GK-12, IGERT, RDE, STEP, and TUES),
and (2) a decision by the AISL program to leverage NSF enterprise
data to provide evidence necessary for monitoring, post-award
management, and assessment of outcomes associated with AISL
projects. In future years, the burden will be affected by the
deletion and addition of some subtasks and respondents. NSF will
notify OMB when there are significant changes to the burden.
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.
3.AppendixA_2019 EHR Prog Monitoring_Annual Response Burden (25Mar'19).docx
2016 EHR Prog Monitoring_Master Crosswalk_updated 20151024.doc
Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (TUES) Monitoring System