Author(s)

Du Jie ¹, Niu Jinjin ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Faculty of Education, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, China

Corresponding Author

Du Jie

ABSTRACT

About the reform of preschool education evaluation system and mechanism, the past ten years is a key stage of adjusting to the direction of rural friendly and actively exploring and practicing. The construction of a rural friendly preschool education evaluation system and mechanism is a key link to fill the shortcomings of China's education, promote education equity, and help rural revitalization. It is very important and practical to review the literature on this topic in the past ten years (about 2014-2024). This review will sort out and analyze the background and motivation of the reform, the existing practical experience and trend, the realistic implementation difficulties, and the future prospects.

KEYWORDS

Rural preschool education, Education evaluation reform, Rural friendliness, Literature review

CITE THIS PAPER

Du Jie, Niu Jinjin, Reform of the Evaluation System and Mechanism for Rural - friendly Preschool Education: A Literature Review of 10 Years. Transactions on Comparative Education (2025) Vol. 7: 19-25. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/trance.2025.070304.

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