Surveying and Monitoring the Implementation of the National Early Childhood Development Center Standards for Fiscal Year 2020

Abstract

The main purpose of this research was to comprehensively evaluate the implementation of the National Early Childhood Development Center standards for the fiscal year 2020 within all early childhood educational institutions throughout the nation, to identify and analyze the challenges and impediments encountered during the execution of these standards and to assemble an extensive report delineating the status of implementation for the National Early Childhood Development Center standards for fiscal year 2020. The study centered its focus on the oversight of early childhood development centers that catered to children ranging from newborns up to six years of age, as well as those preparing for entry into the first grade of elementary education. These centers were distributed across four distinct regions: North, Northeast, Central (inclusive of Bangkok), and the South. A self-developed Likert scale was used to get the opinions of the early childhood centers caregivers. The data for this study was diligently gathered from a comprehensive sample of 2, 500 early childhood development centers caregivers, selected through stratified sampling, spanning the entire nation. In terms of findings, the research yielded noteworthy insights. A significant proportion of early childhood development centers, located across all regions of the country, exhibited substantial advancements in their efforts to implement the National Early Childhood Development Center standards for the fiscal year 2020. Nevertheless, it is important to note that there existed notable variances in compliance levels, with certain centers achieving a higher standard of implementation compared to others.