Abstract

Supervision and instruction of education quality is an important guarantee for public interest kindergartens to realize their public welfare, popularization and high quality. The purpose of the study is to investigate the current status of supervision and instruction quality of public interest kindergartens in urban and rural areas of Chongqing. The study was carried out on 325 teachers, 85 directors and 51 other teaching staff from public interest kindergartens. Data collected from the respondents were coded and entered into the computer for analysis using SPSS version-20 for windows. The results show that the education quality supervision of public interest kindergartens is generally at a satisfactory level. There is no significant difference between urban and rural public interest kindergartens in the education quality supervision, and the public interest kindergartens in urban and rural areas show a trend of equal development in terms of structural quality. However, there are significant differences in the supervision quality standards and the professionalism of supervision personnel between urban and rural public interest kindergartens, those of which in urban areas are better than those in rural areas. Findings highlight that it should formulate a developmental preschool education quality evaluation system, perfect the quality supervision mechanism, implement special training for supervision personnel, strengthen the quality supervision of public interest kindergartens in townships and improve the quality support mechanism in order to realize the balanced and high-quality development of public interest kindergartens both in urban and rural areas.

Highlights

  • Public interest kindergartens are an important measure taken by the Chinese government to promote equity in preschool education and improve its quality

  • This study investigates the urban-rural differences in education quality supervision of public interest kindergartens, aiming to put forward corresponding countermeasures and suggestions for existing problems by exploring the urban-rural differences in education quality supervision of public interest kindergartens and provide some reference for promoting the balanced development of preschool education in urban and rural areas and improving the quality of preschool education

  • It can be seen that the overall quality supervision and instruction of public interest kindergartens in urban and rural areas of Chongqing is in a satisfactory state

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Introduction

Public interest kindergartens are an important measure taken by the Chinese government to promote equity in preschool education and improve its quality. In the past two years, the Chinese government has placed special emphasis on improving the education quality of public interest kindergartens, putting forward the suggestions of "perfecting the quality evaluation and monitoring system" and "establishing the supervision and accountability mechanism". The quality of preschool education is the sum of various characteristics of children's environment and experience that are closely related and promote their development [2]. The quality of pre-school education mainly consists of structural quality (mainly the factors that are quantifiable and manipulated, such as teachers level, teacher-child ratio, class size and safety), process quality

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