Chris Chapman is an expert in complex data collection and study design having spent 30 years developing large-sample, multi-stage, multiple-source data collection and reporting projects for the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in the U.S. Department of Education. During his career at NCES, Mr. Chapman led projects to address a large number of complex measurement issues in education including standardization of high school graduation reporting across the country, estimation of the homeschooling population, and approaches to improving content of data collected through surveys while not increasing respondent burden. Some of the more widely used studies he managed included the Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies, the National Teacher and Principal Survey, and the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study.
Mr. Chapman graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in political science. During his education there, he worked in the University’s Polymetrics Laboratory for Social Science Research as a study director of a range of data collection projects for state and local governments.