Peer-reviewed article
QUALITY ASSURANCE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
ADEBESIN, Solomon Taiwo,, Peter Gbenupo IDOWU ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This paper reviews quality assurance systems and their application to early childhood education globally. It discusses how quality control through systematic monitoring can improve standards in early childhood programmes, which form the foundation for later educational success. The paper emphasizes that governments and stakeholders have roles to play in addressing challenges to quality assurance implementation in early childhood settings.
Key points
- Quality assurance in early childhood education is foundational because it affects all subsequent levels of education
- Quality control involves systematic monitoring of activities, services and programmes to enhance and ensure quality
- National governments are increasing attention to early childhood care and education provision
- Quality assurance has been used for overall improvement of school systems
- Government and other stakeholders should address challenges to quality assurance implementation
Limitations
This is a conceptual review paper that does not report empirical data or evaluate specific interventions, so it cannot tell us what quality assurance approaches are most effective or how they perform in practice. No specific countries or contexts are identified in the available text.
Abstract
Early Childhood Care and Education provision is increasingly attracting local and global concern such that national governments across the globe are beginning to pay more attention to its provision. Meanwhile, quality in education at all levels of educational system, most especially the 'early childhood, remains an issue to all. Quality education at the early childhood level becomes necessary because it is the foundation of other level of education to the tertiary institution. This paper reviews the concept of quality assurance, implementation of quality assurance system and their application to early childhood education as an effort and process to improving the standard and values of education at the foundational level. Since quality control involves systematic monitoring of any activities, services program in order to enhance and ensure quality. Therefore, the place of quality control in early childhood education cannot be overemphasized as it has been used for overall improvement of the school system. The paper recommends amongst other measure the importance of quality assurance in early childhood education and the fole of government and other stakeholders could assist in addressing the challenges militating against quality assurance in early childhood education.Keywords: Early childhood Education, Quality Assurance, Quality Assurance System