2.
Failure rate information from Ministry of Education, Skills, and Training,
Standard Report TRAX 5019, School Year: 1996/97. Operating cost
per student information from Ministry of Education, Skills, and Training,
School Finance and Data Management Branch, School District Revenue and
Expense Information, 1996/97.
3.
Executive Summary, Report on Accountability in the K to 12 Education
System, Internal Audit Branch, Office of the Comptroller General, Ministry
of Finance and Corporate Relations, June 1996.
4.
Introduction, Ministry Response to the Report on Accountability in the
K to 12 Education System, Ministry of Education, Skills, and Training,
June, 1996.
5. The data from which these indicators are derived is contained in publicly accessible databases maintained by the Ministry which maintains them for two purposes.
School level statistics describing student enrollment, programs offered, and certain characteristics of the school district provide the basis for determining the annual per student operating grant each district will receive. Analysis of this same material aids Ministry staff in the assessment and planning of proposed capital projects as well as general policy planning. This data is collected by the School Finance and Data Management Branch and much of it is available to the public on the Branch's web site (http://www.est.gov.bc.ca/sfdm/welcome.htm). The nature and extent of the data is indicated by the School Level Data Collection Manuals also available on site.
Statistics on individual student performance are captured in order that the Ministry is able to produce a transcript of marks for each student upon his or her graduation from grade 12. This transcript lists all the grade 11 and grade 12 courses that the student attempted and the result he achieved. These results include the school mark for all such courses as well as the provincial examination mark for any provincially examinable grade 12 courses. This data is collected by the Evaluation and Accountability Branch and summary data file (at the school, district, and province levels) are available for public perusal on the Branch's web site (http://www.est.gov.bc.ca/eval_acctblty/welcome.htm).
Values for the relevant statistics, for all public and independent secondary schools, for each of the five school years between September 1992 to August 1997 are provided by the Ministry.
Because these databases were
created by the Ministry of Education for the purposes described above and
not for the purpose of evaluating the performance of schools, they are
not entirely suited to the purpose and the indicators derived from them
are far from perfect. Nevertheless, the databases include valuable information
from which we have been able to extract five statistics for the initial
Secondary Schools Report Card for BC; these indicators provide the
best picture available at present of the performance of British Columbia's
secondary schools.
6. Provincially
examinable courses during the period 1992 to 1997: Biology 12, Chemistry
12, Communications 12, English 12, English Literature 12, French 12, Français
Langue 12, Geography 12, Geology 12, German 12, History 12, Japanese 12,
Latin 12, Mandarin 12, Mathematics 12, Physics 12, Spanish 12.
7. Under
Ministry policy on re-writing examinations, it is possible for a student
to write an examination in a given course more than once. In 1996/1997,
approximately 5.5 percent of all the examinations written were re-writes.
Since this option is available to any student wishing to improve his mark,
we do not think that re-writes effect the legitimacy of this indicator.
8. Note that students in their final year who leave one school after September 30th and subsequently graduate at another are counted in the percentage of graduates of the school in which they began the year.
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