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About the authors

Richard Marceau is a professor at the National School of Public Administration (ENAP), University of Quebec. He is also an associate researcher at the Montreal Economic Institute. Prof. Marceau obtained his bachelor's degree in physics from Laval University, his Master's in Water Sciences at the National Institute of Scientific Research, University of Quebec, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Laval University. His teaching at ENAP relates mainly to program evaluation and public-policy analysis. His research in policy analysis is concentrated in the environmental and education sectors. Prof. Marceau's publications include program evaluation studies in wastewater management, university studies programs, and regional economic development. Works in environmental policy include: L'eau potable en milieu rural québécois : habitudes de consommation, défection économique et démarches politiques, 2000 (with François Therrien); Pollution Taxes, Subsidies and Rent-Seeking, 1993 (Canadian Journal of Economics with Jean-Luc Migué) and Des élus et des milliards : l'assainissement des eaux au Québec 1986. Works in education policy include : La question scolaire au Canada, 1998 (with Jean-Luc Migué, Policy Options); Conséquences du choix de l'école : Effectifs, financement, dépenses par élève et résultats scolaires au primaire et au secondaire, 1996 (avec Stéphane Couture) ; Le monopole public de l'éducation, 1989 (with Jean-Luc Migué).

Peter Cowley is the Director of School Performance Studies at The Fraser Institute. Upon graduation from the University of British Columbia (B.Comm. 1974), Mr Cowley accepted a marketing post with Proctor and Gamble in Toronto. He later returned to Vancouver to begin a long career in marketing and general management in the furniture-manufacturing sector. During his assignments in general management, process improvement was a special focus and interest. In 1994, Mr Cowley wrote and published The Parent's Guide, a popular handbook for parents of British Columbia's secondary-school students. The Parent's Guide web site replaced the handbook in 1995. In 1998, Mr Cowley was co-author of The Fraser Institute's A Secondary Schools Report Card for British Columbia--the first of the Institute's continuing series of annual reports on school performance. This was followed in 1999 by The 1999 Report Card on British Columbia's Secondary Schools, Boys, Girls, and Grades: Academic Gender Balance in British Columbia's Secondary Schools, and The 1999 Report Card on Alberta's High Schools. In 2000, he was co-author of new editions of the Report Cards for Alberta and British Columbia and of the first edition of the Bulletin des écoles secondaires du Québec : Édition 2000 / Report Card on Quebec's Secondary Schools: 2000 Edition. This year, Mr. Cowley has co-authored Report Cards for British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta, and Quebec. He continues his research on education and related issues for The Fraser Institute.

Sylvain Bernier is doctoral student at the National School of Public Administration (ENAP). He obtained his bachelor's degree in political science and economics at Bishop's University in 2000 and his Master's degree in program evaluation from ENAP in 2001. His Masters thesis, "The Effects of Standardization and Weighting on Composite Robustness: the Case of Secondary Schools Performance" was written under the supervision of Prof. Marceau. His current research interests relate mainly to the economics of education, skews of selection, and statistical methods in performance evaluation of the schools. Mr. Bernier made a significant contribution to the methodological innovations developed for this edition of the Report Card

Acknowledgments

The Montreal Economic Institute and The Fraser Institute wish to thank Dr. Norma Kozhaya for her considerable contribution to the multivariate analysis presented in Appendix 2 of this paper. Dr. Kozhaya holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Montreal. Her specialties include international macroeconomics and public finance. She is particularly interested in the theoretical and empirical aspects of taxation and public spending issues. Dr. Kozhaya has taught several courses at the University of Montreal and L'École des Hautes Études Commerciales du Montréal and has contributed to research projects with professors from the Centre de recherche et développement en économique (CRDE) and the Economics department at the University of Montreal. She has been associated with the Montreal Economic Institute since May 2000.

We also wish to thank the personnel of the Ministry of Education for their assistance in obtaining the data upon which this Report Card is based.

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