Alberta Secondary Schools Report Card, 2000: Notes

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1. United Kingdom, Department for Education and Employment. Digital document: www.dfee.gov.uk/perform.htm (January 17, 2000).
2. Pat Boyle. Gender Issues: An Annual Report of the Advisor on Gender Issues 1997. Calgary Board of Education, (December) 1997: pages 27-40.
3. Peter Cowley and Stephen Easton, Boys, Girls and Grades: Academic Gender Balance in British Columbia's Secondary Schools, Public Policy Sources 22 (Vancouver, BC: The Fraser Institute, 1999): page 23.
4. The Notley High School and Essex Inspection and Advisory Service. Raising Boys' Achievement 1996-1998. Digital document: notley-high.essex.sch.uk/rba/rba.html (January 17, 2000).
5. David Romer, Do Students Go To Class? Should They? Journal of Economic Perspectives 7, 3 (Summer 1993): pages 167-74; at page 167.
6. Eileen Garry, Truancy: First Step to a Lifetime of Problems (Washington, DC: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, October 1996).
7. The data from which the various indicators in this Report Card are derived is contained in databases maintained or controlled by Alberta Learning. Alberta Learning provided the relevant statistics for those public, separate, private, and francophone schools that met the criteria for inclusion for each of the four school years between September 1995 to August 1999 in response to our various requests under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
8. A student's final mark for a diploma course is derived from both the mark received on the course's uniform diploma examination and a mark provided by the school. The final mark is the weighted average of the examination mark that accounts for 50 percent and the school mark that accounts for the remaining 50 percent.
9. For each enumeration area, Statistics Canada, using data from the 1996 Canadian census, calculated socio-economic characteristics for families having at least one child between the ages of 11 and 16 years as of the date of the census.
10. Cowley and Easton, Boys, Girls and Grades: page 7.
11. Cowley and Easton, Boys, Girls and Grades: page 17.

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