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Article: Affordability, accessibility, and accountability: Perceived impacts of the Pre-primary Education Vouchers in Hong Kong
Title | Affordability, accessibility, and accountability: Perceived impacts of the Pre-primary Education Vouchers in Hong Kong |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Chinese Early Childhood Education Voucher Policy Study |
Issue Date | 2010 |
Publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ecresq |
Citation | Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2010, v. 25 n. 1, p. 125-138 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Hong Kong launched the Pre-primary Education Voucher Scheme (PEVS) in 2007 to promote the "3A's" of early childhood education (ECE): affordability, accessibility, and accountability. The PEVS has three unique features: discriminating against profit kindergartens, promoting teacher professional development, and limiting parents' choice to only non-profit schools. To understand the voucher scheme's perceived impacts, this study conducted stratified random sampling to include 10% of Hong Kong kindergartens and surveyed their parents, principals, and teachers. A total of 380 completed questionnaires were collected and analyzed, and the results indicated that (1) the majority of the respondents perceived positive impacts on the 3A's of ECE; (2) significant effects of stakeholders (parents, teachers and principals), school types (profit or non-profit), eligibility, and familiarity were found in between- and within-group comparisons; (3) the parents and especially those from non-profit/eligible kindergartens tended to perceive more positive impacts than others; and (4) the principals and teachers reported some implementation difficulties. Implications for voucher reform in others countries are discussed. © 2009 Elsevier Inc. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/175467 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.2 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.569 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Li, H | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Wong, JMS | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Wang, XC | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-26T08:58:51Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-11-26T08:58:51Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2010, v. 25 n. 1, p. 125-138 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0885-2006 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/175467 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Hong Kong launched the Pre-primary Education Voucher Scheme (PEVS) in 2007 to promote the "3A's" of early childhood education (ECE): affordability, accessibility, and accountability. The PEVS has three unique features: discriminating against profit kindergartens, promoting teacher professional development, and limiting parents' choice to only non-profit schools. To understand the voucher scheme's perceived impacts, this study conducted stratified random sampling to include 10% of Hong Kong kindergartens and surveyed their parents, principals, and teachers. A total of 380 completed questionnaires were collected and analyzed, and the results indicated that (1) the majority of the respondents perceived positive impacts on the 3A's of ECE; (2) significant effects of stakeholders (parents, teachers and principals), school types (profit or non-profit), eligibility, and familiarity were found in between- and within-group comparisons; (3) the parents and especially those from non-profit/eligible kindergartens tended to perceive more positive impacts than others; and (4) the principals and teachers reported some implementation difficulties. Implications for voucher reform in others countries are discussed. © 2009 Elsevier Inc. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ecresq | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Early Childhood Research Quarterly | en_US |
dc.subject | Chinese | en_US |
dc.subject | Early Childhood Education Voucher | en_US |
dc.subject | Policy Study | en_US |
dc.title | Affordability, accessibility, and accountability: Perceived impacts of the Pre-primary Education Vouchers in Hong Kong | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Li, H: huili@hkucc.hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Li, H=rp00926 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.ecresq.2009.09.004 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-70450237828 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 172020 | - |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-70450237828&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 25 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 125 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 138 | en_US |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1873-7706 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000273428300009 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Li, H=35220135900 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Wong, JMS=35220655100 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Wang, XC=37084694400 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citeulike | 5920384 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0885-2006 | - |