In an interchange conducted with Ernest Howe, Kenneth Strike advanced the argument that models of social justice can be used to discover the implicit moral commitments associated with evaluation practice. This paper extends that argument. Two responses are offered to this paper. (JMK)

The author (1) presents criteria against which all educational activities should be measured to discern whether they are productive of independent, critical thought; (2) measures "career education" against these criteria; and (3) concludes that this reform effort fails to meet them and is a suspect program upon which to base an educational…

Evaluation techniques and practices do not belong to a particular theory of justice. Systems analysis evaluation consists of defining quantitative outcome measures of program success and the establishment of causal links between this measure and the program by experimental design. (JN)