ERIC Number: ED657651
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Apr-11
Pages: 14
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Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Process Quality in Chinese Preschools
Runke Huang; Hao Zheng; Iram Siraj
AERA Online Paper Repository, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Philadelphia, PA, Apr 11-14, 2024)
The expansion of early childhood education and care (ECEC) programs has generated increasing interest in establishing appropriate structural standards that can optimize child outcomes. To contribute to this discourse, this study aims to investigate the characteristics and influencing factors of classroom quality. Ninety-six classrooms (202 teachers) were observed to measure the classroom quality using the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale--Extension (ECERS-E) and Sustained Shared Thinking and Social-Emotional Wellbeing (SSTEW) scales. The results indicate that teachers demonstrated inadequate to minimal process quality measured by ECERS-E and SSTEW. Multilevel modeling revealed that child-to-teacher ratio, school types, and school classifications were significant predictors of classroom quality.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Quality, Teacher Student Ratio, Well Being, Rating Scales, Institutional Characteristics, Predictor Variables, Classroom Environment
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Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale
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