In education, evaluative data concerning the merit of materials, methods, and programs, are used by the decision maker to project the probable value of consequences of alternative actions from several points of view and then place all of these evaluative data in the context of the normative requirements and constraints of the situation. (JMF)

A truly balanced institution of liberal learning requires that socially useful information be broadly defined in order to safeguard academic freedom and foster the goals of a social democracy. (CJ)