The Development and Implication of the Core Quality Benchmarks of Early Education Quality Monitoring—Analysis Based on 20 Years'_The State of Preschool:State Preschool Yearbook
Early education quality monitoring system is an important way to serve government decision-making and improve the quality of education and teaching and its premise and core is to build a scientific and effective monitoring index system.The National Institute of Early Education Research(NIEER)in America has proposed ten quality benchmarks for assessing the quality of preschool education,and through continuous revision,it has increased the proportion of the process quality indicators,improved the process quality baseline,and paid attention to the construction of a sustainable quality promotion system.The assessment benchmarks are widely used throughout the United States as the most important component of the monitoring index system.Drawing on the idea of constructing the assessment benchmark for the quality of preschool education in America,China should focus on curriculum support,pay attention to the interaction quality,and further increase the proportion of process quality monitoring indicators when constructing the quality monitoring index system for preschool education;focus on qualification competence,strengthen personalized guidance,and purposely raise the baseline level of monitoring the quality of the teaching force;based on the assessment data,aim at systematic improvement,and take the sustainable quality improvement system as the core of quality monitoring indicators.