The purposes of this study were to measure parents' satisfaction on management of child care center in five parts; in- and out-side environment, general management, child care and education, relationship with home, and nutrition, health, and safety, a...
The purposes of this study were to measure parents' satisfaction on management of child care center in five parts; in- and out-side environment, general management, child care and education, relationship with home, and nutrition, health, and safety, and to analyse longitudinal change of parents' satisfaction.
The subjects of this study were young children's parent(in 1996 data, 15 fathers and 132 mothers; in 1997 data, 9 fathers and 106 mothers; in 1998 data, 2 fathers and 74 mothers) attending a public child
care center in Pusan. The instrument for this study was parents' satisfaction rating scale on management of child care center.
The main findings of this study are as following:
First, The most parents (more than 85%) were satisfied with management of child care center. In five parts of management, higher satisfaction percent (more than 90%) in enviorment part was shown, and lower satisfaction percent (less than 60%) in relationship with home part was shown. In the rest three parts, satisfaction percent were ranged from 80% to 90%.
Second, as year goes, parents' satisfactions were changed but not considerably, although most parents in 1997 rated low score in parents' satisfaction. In enviorment part, general management part, and child care and education part, as time goes, parents' satisfaction were increased. But in relationship with home part, and nutrition, health, and safety part, parents' satisfation were decreased.
Further educational implications and suggestions were discussed.