Pakistani Early Childhood Education Classroom Quality in Terms of Structural and Procedural Aspects

Abstract

Class environment plays a critical role in the early childhood education this is because. The necessary quality for achieving the desired results is the quality of both the process and the structure of the organization. Specific objectives of this research were to explore the structural characteristics of early childhood education classrooms in public and private schools in major cities of Punjab, such as class size, physical quality, academic quality, teacher-child ratio, etc.; and to compare the differences of various demographic groups in achieving the structural and process aspects of classroom quality of early childhood education level, and the process aspects of classroom quality including teachers’ self-efficacy, depressive behavior, teacher parents, coordination. This study used a casual comparative research design as its method of data collection. On the basis of easy selection for quantitative data, the researcher selected 100 public and 100 private schools from Punjab. The survey technique was used in the quantitative approach and a personal developed questionnaire was used to obtain the data. Descriptive analysis was done using the statistical software of the Scientific Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25.0. The researcher applies descriptive and inferential analysis (the t-test of independent samples, ANOVA, etc.) to categories the quantitative data and to compare and contrast the structural and process characteristics of classroom quality.