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Variations in Chinese Parental Perceptions of Early Childhood Education Quality
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Hu, Bi Ying; Zhou, Yisu; Li, Kejian – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2017
As consumers of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), Chinese parents play a crucial role in the ongoing process of monitoring, evaluating, and improving the quality of ECEC in China. This study used questionnaires to solicit parental feedback on the importance of, and their quality ratings for, aspects of ECEC. The researchers used a random…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Pinpointing Chinese Early Childhood Teachers' Professional Development Needs through Self-Evaluation and External Observation of Classroom Quality
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Hu, Bi Ying; Zhou, Yisu; Li, Kejian – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2014
This study compared Chinese kindergarten teachers' values and perceptions of program quality with trained raters' assessments of quality in order to gain insights into effective professional development for improving teacher quality. A total of 284 Chinese kindergarten teachers self-assessed the quality of their classroom teaching and rated their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Values
Examining Program Quality Disparities between Urban and Rural Kindergartens in China: Evidence from Zhejiang
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Hu, Bi Ying; Zhou, Yisu; Li, Kejian; Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2014
In recent years, the Chinese government has initiated a national plan to universalize quality kindergartens for all age-eligible Chinese children. Kindergarten is the main form of early childhood education and care (ECEC) service across China. However, the government faces two thorny issues on the journey toward realizing educational equity for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Equal Education, Kindergarten