A Study on the Evaluation of Early Childhood Educational Institutions - In Korea, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand

In Korea, the revised evaluation system has been in effect since July 2024. It is very important for the revised evaluation system to settle well in the childcare site and support the improvement of the institution's service quality. To this end, the evaluation systems of Korea, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand will be reviewed and the future progress of the revised evaluation system in Korea will be discussed. The OECD emphasized the effect of service quality on the development, well-being, and learning of infants and young children by identifying the relationship between structural and processive quality for evaluation. This study is a literature study, and for data collection, literature related to the evaluation system, major websites that manage the evaluation of each country, and embedded reports were referenced. For data analysis, two analysis frameworks were presented: How is the evaluation system in each country? How is the evaluation used in each country? First, the conclusions and discussions on the evaluation system are as follows. First, creating evaluation based on the national-level curriculum. Second, establishing evaluation based on process quality-oriented evaluation. Third, making use of the advantages of qualitative evaluation. Fourth, strengthening the expertise of field evaluators. Fifth, it is to continue to grow through self-evaluation. The following are the conclusions and discussions on the use of evaluation. First, freely participate in the discussion of evaluation results. Second, include specific details when disclosing evaluation results. Third, various incentive cycles for evaluation results.