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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Comment Request; National 

Science Foundation’s Evaluation of the 

Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship 

Program 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation 

(NSF). 

ACTION: Submission for OMB review; 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

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second notice for public comment; the 

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title of Collection: The Evaluation of 

the National Science Foundation’s 

(NSF) Robert Noyce Teacher 

Scholarship Program. 

OMB Number: 3145–NEW. 

Abstract: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) has been committed 

to broadening participation of 

underrepresented groups and diverse 

institutions in science, technology, 

engineering, and math (STEM) through 

an array of means. One way that NSF 

supports this is through its Robert 

Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program 

(Noyce Program; https://

www.nsfnoyce.org/), which was 

authorized in 2002 under the National 

Science Foundation Authorization Act 

of 2002 (Pub. L. 107–368) and 

reauthorized in 2007 under the 

American COMPETES Act (Pub. L. 110– 

69; https://www.govinfo.gov/content/ 

pkg/PLAW-110publ69/pdf/PLAW110publ69.pdf). The program provides 

funding to higher education institutions 

via (a) scholarships, (b) stipends, and (c) 

other means of programmatic support to 

recruit and prepare science, technology, 

engineering, and mathematics (STEM) 

majors and other professionals to 

become K–12 STEM teachers. 

The overall goal of the Noyce Program 

is to ‘‘increase the number of K–12 

teachers with strong STEM content 

knowledge who teach in high-need 

school districts’’ (The Robert Noyce 

Teacher Scholarship Program 

[nsfnoyce.org]). Specifically, the Noyce 

Program’s goals include aiding in 

establishing and facilitating the 

awarding of scholarships, fellowships, 

funding, and programming that help to 

recruit, train, and retain K–12 STEM 

teachers for high-need school districts. 

Additional Noyce Program goals include 

supporting research on K–12 STEM 

teachers in high-need school districts to 

understand patterns of teacher retention 

and effectiveness in these settings. 

Program objectives for the Noyce 

Teacher Scholarship Program include 

increasing the (a) number and (b) 

diversity of students from groups 

underrepresented in STEM fields who 

pursue careers in K–12 STEM teaching, 

especially in high-need school districts. 

The NSF STEM Education (EDU) 

Directorate requests the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval of this clearance to initiate 

new data collections to be conducted as 

part of an external evaluation of the 

Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship 

Program. These collections, to be 

conducted by the evaluation contractor, 

include: 

Demographic Questionnaire. A onetime, web-based survey of selected 

individuals who have been involved in 

various aspects of NSF’s Robert Noyce 

Teacher Scholarship Program from 

FY2014 to FY2024 (i.e., PIs, program 

coordinators, faculty, current and 

former scholars/fellows, K–12 school 

leaders, external evaluators) as well as 

representative individuals who are 

eligible for Noyce funding but have not 

received it. The purpose of this 

questionnaire is to (a) ensure that the 

participants recruited are diverse, and 

(b) support the qualitative data analytic 

approaches. Information about the 

respondents that will be captured 

within the questionnaire will include 

demographic data (e.g., race/ethnicity, 

gender identity), length of time with the 

institution, and experience with the 

Noyce Program (as applicable). The 

survey data will enable NSF to 

supplement the information gleaned 

from the interviews and focus groups, 

encouraging further understanding of 

what is working well and growth 

opportunities for the Noyce Program. 

Interviews with Principal 

Investigators. Interviews with a 

purposive sample of up to 50 PIs or CoPIs who had NSF’s Robert Noyce 

Teacher Scholarship Program funded 

between FY2014 and FY2024. The 

interviews will be conducted either inperson during the annual Noyce 

Summit (2025), in-person during 

regional Noyce conferences (Fall 2024– 

Summer 2025), or using a virtual 

meeting platform at a time convenient 

for the respondents. The interviews will 

elicit information about how the Noyce 

Program can support the STEM teacher 

preparation field, the impact of the 

award, barriers and facilitators to 

applying for Noyce funding, and how 

changes to the solicitation over the past 

10 years have impacted the perception 

of the Noyce award, as well as 

perceptions of the merit review process. 

This information will be triangulated 

with the other data collected as well as 

with information from the review of 

documents to provide a holistic 

understanding of the context of the 


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Noyce Program, what is working well, 

and growth opportunities. 

Interviews with Eligible Individuals 

Who Have Not Received NSF’s Robert 

Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program 

Funding. Interviews with a purposive 

sample of up to 20 representatives who 

are eligible for Noyce funding but have 

not received it. This sample includes 

individuals who have never applied for 

Noyce funding and those who have 

applied for but not received Noyce 

funding. The interviews will be 

conducted either in-person during the 

annual Noyce Summit (2025), in-person 

during regional Noyce conferences (Fall 

2024–Summer 2025), or using a virtual 

meeting platform at a time convenient 

for the respondents. These interviews 

will elicit information about how the 

Noyce Program can support the STEM 

teacher preparation field, the impact of 

the award, barriers and facilitators to 

applying for Noyce funding, and how 

changes to the solicitation over the past 

10 years have impacted the perception 

of the Noyce award (as applicable to the 

representatives’ roles). 

Focus groups. A series of up to 115 

focus groups are also planned, including 

program coordinators/program staff, 

faculty, current scholars/fellows, former 

scholars/fellows, high-need K–12 school 

and district leaders, external evaluators, 

American Association for the 

Advancement of Science (AAAS) staff, 

and current and former NSF staff. This 

may include a total of up to 469 

respondents. The focus groups will be 

conducted either in-person during the 

annual Noyce Summit (in 2025), inperson during regional Noyce events 

(Fall 2024–Summer 2025), or using a 

virtual meeting platform at a time 

convenient for the respondents, and will 

elicit information about how the Noyce 

Program can support the STEM teacher 

preparation field, the impact of the 

award, barriers and facilitators to 

applying for Noyce funding, and how 

changes to the solicitation over the past 

10 years has impacted the perception of 

the Noyce award, as well as perceptions 

of the merit review process as 

applicable to the representatives’ roles. 

This data collection is necessary to 

provide NSF with actionable 

information about the overall context of 

the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship 

Program, as well as to (a) understand 

overall perceptions of the Program from 

both Noyce and non-Noyce recipients, 

and (b) identify what is working well 

and opportunities for growth. This 

information will help support the 

overall goal of increasing the number 

and diversity of qualified teachers 

within the STEM education field. 

Further, the need is grounded in the 

importance and value of producing a 

diverse pool of STEM professionals who 

choose to pursue a career as a K–12 

STEM teacher in a high-need school/ 

school district. 

Use of the Information: Aggregate 

results from the demographic 

questionnaire, interviews, and focus 

groups will be synthesized and 

summarized in reports developed by the 

evaluation contractor that will be 

provided to NSF. Although 

questionnaire, interview, and focus 

group responses will be identifiable to 

the contractor, the reports provided to 

NSF will only include overall findings. 

No individual-level responses will be 

attributable to an individual respondent. 

Additionally, no information about 

individuals participating in the data 

collection activities will be released to 

anyone outside the contractor’s 

organization. The data collected and 

reported on will be used for planning, 

management, and evaluation purposes 

only. These data are needed for effective 

administration, program monitoring, 

evaluation, and for strategic reviews and 

measuring attainment of NSF’s program 

and strategic goals, as identified by the 

President’s Accountable Government 

Initiative, the Government Performance 

and Results Act Modernization Act of 

2010, Evidence-Based Policymaking Act 

of 2018, and NSF’s Strategic Plan. 

Expected Respondents: The 

respondents are Principal Investigators 

(PIs), representatives who are eligible 

for NSF’s Robert Noyce Teacher 

Scholarship Program funding but have 

not received it (Potential PIs), program 

coordinators/program staff, faculty, 

current and former scholars/fellows, 

high-need K–12 school and district 

leaders, external evaluators, American 

Association for the Advancement of 

Science (AAAS) staff, and current and 

former NSF staff. 

The demographic questionnaire 

respondents will include up to 78 PIs 

with Noyce awards between FY2014 to 

FY2024, up to 56 representatives who 

are eligible for NSF’s Robert Noyce 

Teacher Scholarship Program funding 

but have not received it, up to 94 

program coordinators/program staff, up 

to 188 faculty, up to 125 current 

scholars/fellows, up to 100 former 

scholars/fellows, up to 125 high-need 

K–12 school and district leaders, and up 

to 63 external evaluators (approximately 

827 total respondents). 

The interviews will include up to 50 

PIs with NSF’s Robert Noyce Teacher 

Scholarship Program awards between 

FY2014 to FY2024 and up to 20 

representatives who are eligible for 

funding but have not received it 

(Potential PIs), all of whom will also 

have completed the questionnaire 

(approximately 70 total). The focus 

groups will include up to 60 program 

coordinators/program staff, up to 120 

faculty, up to 80 current scholars/ 

fellows, up to 64 former scholars/ 

fellows, up to 80 high-need K–12 school 

and district leaders, and up to 40 

external evaluators, all of whom will 

have also completed the questionnaire. 

Additionally, up to 3 AAAS staff, up to 

6 current NSF staff, and up to 16 former 

NSF staff are expected to participate in 

focus groups (approximately 469 total 

respondents). 

Estimate of Burden 

Estimates of Annualized Cost to 

Respondents for the Hour Burdens 

The overall annualized cost to the 

respondents is estimated to be 

$50,455.69. The hourly wage estimates 

for completing the interviews 

mentioned in the burden hours table are 

based on information from the Bureau of 

Labor Statistics website (http://

www.bls.gov) and average GS-15-Step 5 

for the current POs (https://

www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/ 

pay-leave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/ 

24Tables/html/GS_h.aspx). Specifically, 

the ‘‘May 2023 National Occupational 

Employment and Wage Estimates’’ were 

used. For Principal Investigators, 

faculty, external evaluators, and former 

NSF staff, 25–1000 ‘‘Postsecondary 

Teachers’’ was used; for this, the 

average hourly rate was calculated for a 

9-month contract because an hourly rate 

was unavailable. For program 

coordinators, 25–9031 ‘‘Instructional 

Coordinators’’ was used; for 

representatives who are eligible for 

NSF’s Robert Noyce Teacher 

Scholarship Program funding but have 

not received it, 11–9033 ‘‘Education 

Administrators, Postsecondary’’ was 

used; for Current and Former Scholars/ 

Fellows, 25–2000 ‘‘Preschool, 

Elementary, Middle, Secondary, and 

Special Education Teachers’’ was used 

(for this, the average hourly rate was 

calculated for a 9-month contract 

because an hourly rate was unavailable); 

for K–12 School Leaders, 11–9032 

‘‘Education Administrators, 

Kindergarten through Secondary’’ was 

used (for this, the average hourly rate 

was calculated for a 9-month contract 

because an hourly rate was unavailable); 

and for AAAS staff, 19–0000 ‘‘Life, 

Physical and Social Science 

Occupations’’ was used. 


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Respondent type Collection title 

Total number 

of respondents 

in category 

Burden hours 

per respondent 

Total hours 

burden 

Average 

hourly rate 

estimate 

Estimated 

annual 

cost 

Pretest: 

PIs ............................................ Pretest Demographic Questionnaire 1 0.33 0.33 70.66 23.32 

Potential PIs ............................. 1 0.33 0.33 58.66 19.36 

External Evaluators .................. 1 0.33 0.33 70.66 23.32 

PIs ............................................ Pretest Principal Investigator Interview Protocol.5 1 5 70.66 353.30 

Potential PIs ............................. Pretest Potential Principal Investigator Interview Protocol.3 1 3 58.66 175.98 

Current Scholars/Fellows ......... Pretest Scholars and Fellows 

Focus Group Protocol.

4 1 4 47.84 191.36 

Program Coordinators .............. Pretest Program Coordinator Focus 

Group Protocol.

1 1 1 37.12 37.12 

External Evaluators .................. Pretest External Evaluators Focus 

Group Protocol.

1 1 1 70.66 70.66 

Demographic Questionnaire: 

PIs ............................................ Demographic Questionnaire ........... 78 0.33 25.74 70.66 1,818.79 

Potential PIs ............................. 56 0.33 18.48 58.66 1,084.01 

Program Coordinators .............. 94 0.33 31.02 37.12 1,151.46 

Faculty ...................................... 188 0.33 62.04 70.66 4,383.75 

External Evaluators .................. 63 0.33 20.79 70.66 1,469.02 

Current Scholars/Fellows ......... 125 0.33 41.25 47.84 1,973.40 

Former Scholars/Fellows .......... 100 0.33 33 47.84 1,578.72 

High Need K–12 School Leaders.125 0.33 41.25 77.10 3,180.38 

Interviews: 

PIs ............................................ Principal Investigator Interview Protocol.50 1 50 70.66 3,532.99 

Potential PIs ............................. Potential Principal Investigator 

Interview Protocol.

20 1 20 58.66 1,173.20 

Focus Groups: 

Program Coordinators .............. Program Coordinator Focus Group 

Protocol.

60 1 60 37.12 2,227.20 

Faculty ...................................... Faculty Focus Group Protocol ........ 120 1 120 70.66 8,479.17 

External Evaluators .................. External Evaluators Focus Group 

Protocol.

40 1 40 70.66 2,826.39 

Current Scholars/Fellows ......... Current Scholars/Fellows Focus 

Group Protocol.

80 1 80 47.84 3,827.22 

Former Scholars/Fellows .......... Former Scholars/Fellows Focus 

Group Protocol.

64 1 64 47.84 3,061.78 

High Need K–12 School Leaders.High Need K–12 School/District 

Leaders Focus Group Protocol.

80 1 80 77.10 6,167.78 

AAAS Staff ............................... AAAS Staff Focus Group Protocol 3 1 3 42.24 126.72 

Current NSF Staff ..................... Current and Former NSF Staff 

Focus Group Protocol.

6 1 6 66.82 400.92 

Former NSF Staff ..................... Current and Former NSF Staff 

Focus Group Protocol.

16 1 16 70.66 1,130.56 

Total .................................. ......................................................... 556 ............................ 827.04 ........................ 50,455.69 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Report 

It is estimated that there will be up to 

1,366 responses (which does not 

include the 17 pretest responses). Up to 

827 of these responses will be from the 

demographic questionnaire (excluding 

the 3 from the pretest), up to 70 from the 

interviews (excluding the 8 from the 

pretest), and up to 469 for the focus 

groups from those directly or indirectly 

affiliated with institutions eligible to 

receive Noyce funding (excluding the 6 

from the pretest). 

Dated: October 28, 2024. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

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ACTION: Submission for OMB review; 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) has submitted the 

following information collection 

requirement to OMB for review and 

clearance under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. This is the 

second notice for public comment; the 

first was published in the Federal 

Register, and no comments were 

received. NSF is forwarding the 

proposed submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

clearance simultaneously with the 

publication of this second notice. 

DATES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance 

Officer, National Science Foundation, 

2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, 

Virginia 22314; telephone (703) 292– 

7556; or send email to splimpto@

nsf.gov. Individuals who use a 

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