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The Alberta Diploma Exams are the provincial tests given to students taking thirty-level secondary school courses in Alberta, Canada. Results are an important factor in admissions to universities and colleges across Canada as exam results make up thirty percent (formerly fifty percent)〔http://globalnews.ca/news/1885060/alberta-diploma-exams-worth-only-30-of-final-grade/〕 of the course grade for thirty-level subjects. The territorial governments of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut follow and complete the curriculum of Alberta Education and therefore write Alberta Grade 12 Diploma Examinations. While both territories do have Departments of Education for maintaining schools, they do not deal with curriculum or standardized examinations, thus the reason for using the curriculum and achievement tests of Alberta. Diploma examinations required to receive an official high school diploma in Alberta are English 30-1 or 30-2, Social Studies 30-1 or 30-2, and at least one approved 30-level Science course (usually Biology, Chemistry, or Physics). This is because only English, Social Studies and one Science are required courses at the grade 12 level; only grade 11 Math is required for graduation, and grade 11 courses do not have diploma examinations. Another ''factor'' in the introduction of Diploma Exams was to prevent the inflation of marks by biased and over-generous teachers. This puts grade averages significantly lower than the rest of the country. As one of these exams constitutes 30% of the entire course grade, the diploma exams are considered to be an important factor to standardize all high school students in the province.〔http://www.macleans.ca/education/uniandcollege/why-albertas-education-system-is-better/〕 These diploma examinations are special in the sense that Alberta, as well as the province of Quebec, are the only two provinces in Canada that require high schools students to write provincial wide exams. ==Subjects== In October 2009, Alberta Education decided to eliminate the written response (Part A) for Biology 30, Chemistry 30, Pure Mathematics 30, Applied Mathematics 30, Physics 30, and Science 30. This will save the Alberta government 1.7 million dollars in producing the exams and paying teachers to mark them in Edmonton, the capital of Alberta. The written response (Part A) remains for Social Studies 30-1 and 30-2 as well as English 30-1 and 30-2. For humanities subjects, Part A written response will take place up to two weeks before Part B multiple choice. Grade twelve subjects for which there are diploma exams are:〔http://education.alberta.ca/media/6446740/04-dip-gib-2013-14_schedules%20significant%20dates-update.pdf〕 *English Language Arts 30-1 (Part A Written and Part B Multiple Choice) *English Language Arts 30-2 (Part A Written and Part B Multiple Choice) *Social Studies 30-1 (Part A Written and Part B Multiple Choice) *Social Studies 30-2 (Part A Written and Part B Multiple Choice) *Mathematics 30-1 (Multiple Choice and Numerical Response only) - 28 Multiple Choice and 12 Numerical Response *Mathematics 30-2 (Multiple Choice and Numerical Response only) - 28 Multiple Choice and 12 Numerical Response *Biology 30 (Multiple Choice and Numerical Response only) - 48 Multiple Choice and 12 Numerical Response *Chemistry 30 (Multiple Choice and Numerical Response only) - 44 Multiple Choice and 16 Numerical Response *Physics 30 (Multiple Choice and Numerical Response only) - 36 Multiple Choice and 14 Numerical Response *Science 30 *Français 30 *French Language Arts 30 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alberta Diploma Exam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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