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The Importance of Common Metrics for Advancing Social Science Theory and Research: A Workshop Summary
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Appendix A

Workshop Agenda and Participants

Workshop on Advancing Social Science Theory:
The Importance of Common Metrics

February 25-26, 2010
National Academies Keck Building
500 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, DC

Thursday, February 25, 2010

8:30 a.m. Working breakfast

Participants arriving early are encouraged to discuss work-
shop issues over breakfast served in the meeting room.

9:00 Introduction and goals for the workshop

Miron L. Straf, Workshop Director
George W. Bohrnstedt, Workshop Chair

Overview

Chair: Harris Cooper, Duke University

9:15 An overview of measurement in the social sciences

George W. Bohrnstedt, American Institutes for Research

9:45 Comparable metrics: Some examples

Robert M. Hauser, Division of Behavioral and Social
Sciences and Education, National Research Council,
Washington, DC, and University of Wisconsin, Madison

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