The National Academies Evidence for Use Improving the Quality and Utility of Social Science Research Agenda, Open Session Meeting 1 500 Fifth Street, NW Room 109 Washington, DC April 27, 2007
8:00 a.m.	Breakfast
8:30 a.m	Welcome and Brief Introductions
	Kenneth Prewitt, Chair
8:45 a.m.	Sponsors’ and DBASSE Perspectives
	Robert Granger, W.T. Grant Foundation
	Michael McPherson, Spencer Foundation
	Marshall (Mike) Smith, Hewlett Foundation (by phone)
	TBD, National Science Foundation
	Aletha Huston (DBASSE Liaison), University of Texas, Austin
10:00 a.m.	Critical Issues in the Development of the Current Phase of the Initiative
	Michael Feuer, Executive Director, DBASSE
10:30 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m.	Deliverables and Requirements for Current Phase of the Initiative
	Kenneth Prewitt
Committee members’ initial thoughts on the questions guiding the initiative and the intersection of their work with these questions
11:15 a.m.	Part 1: What did we learn from the planning phase? Why do we need this committee? What problems are we trying to fix?
	Opening remarks/moderator: Norman Bradburn, University of Chicago
12:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.	Part 2: What is the nature of data and evidence in the social sciences?
	Opening remarks/moderator: Nancy Cartwright, London School of Economics and Political Science
3:00 p.m.	Break
3:15 p.m.	Part 3: What are the characteristics of research and policy/practice situations that foster positive as well as problematic interactions between the two domains? What about politics?
	Researcher perspective: Philip Tetlock, University of California, Berkeley
	Policymaker perspective: Judith Feder, Georgetown University
4:45 p.m.	Adjourn Open Session