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Christopher Sanford

Research Analyst

Christopher Sanford has worked extensively on data collection activities for the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2) and the Maryland Longitudinal Transition Study (MDLTS). He is the transcript manager for these studies, coordinating the mailing, follow-up, tracking, and receipt of records for more than 10,000 students. Mr. Sanford also leads the transcript coding and editing activities for both studies.

Mr. Sanford has extensive experience in developing site visit and data collection procedures. He has worked on the Evaluation of Educational Technology Interventions (EETI) and the Evaluation of Mathematics (EMC), for which he developed procedures to schedule and coordinate multiple site visits and track protocols used in data collection, working closely with programmers to design interactive web-based data systems to schedule site visits and track protocols.

Mr. Sanford is also a reviewer for the National Study of Alternate Assessments (NSAA), working with other researchers to analyze documents describing state alternate assessments and content standards in an effort to describe the current status of each state’s alternate assessment, the impact on individual students with disabilities, and the effect on student outcomes.

Mr. Sanford has contributed to reports and presentations of findings from SEELS, NLTS2, and MDLTS.

Mr. Sanford holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education with a concentration in special education from the State University of New York at Cortland and a master’s degree in special education from the University of Texas at Austin.