By Luo Suo, Director of Basic Education Division of Guangxi Education Department, P.R. China

Ever since the 1980s, promoting children’s physical and mental development by high quality pre-school education has been the common goal of worldwide reform in pre-school education

1. Developing trends of quality evaluation for pre-school education in developed countries

2. Features of current pre-school education quality evaluation reform in China

Government leading, building a scientific evaluation system

Combine evaluation with construction, emphasize on the development of the connotation of pre-school education quality evaluation

• Enhance developing evaluation

• Imporve the evaluation criteria

• Optimize the evaluation system

• Focus on monitoring the evaluation

3.Successful approach of improving pre-school education in Guangxi

Government is responsible for the overall plans, investment, monitoring etc.

Scientific planning, improve pre-school education policy system in order to offer policy support to pre-school quality.

Take ‘Model Kindergarten Evaluation’ as a chance to develop the pre-school education and improve education quality of this area.

Reforms below have been successful in evaluation in Guangxi：

Focusing on the process of combining evaluation with construction.

Diversity of the evaluation team.

Implement dynamic evaluation, change tenure-track in order to ensure the standard of the model kindergartens.

According to ‘Outline of the long-term plan for education reform and development in China(2012-2020)’, by 2020, a one-year pre-school education will be overall popularized and the gross enrollment rate will reach 95%. This is going to be a new challenge for China’s pre-school education.