Journal Articles
Exploring parental involvement in early years education in China: Development and validation of the Chinese early parental involvement scale (CEPIS)
- Exploring parental involvement in early years education in China: Development and validation of the Chinese early parental involvement scale (CEPIS)
- International Journal of Early Years Education, 20(4), 405-421, 2012
- Routledge
- 2012
-
- Hong Kong
- China
-
- 1997.7 onwards
-
- Pre-Primary Education
- This study developed and validated an instrument, the Chinese Early Parental Involvement Scale (CEPIS), that can be widely used in both local and international contexts to assess Chinese parental involvement in early childhood education. The study was carried out in two stages: (1) focus group interviews were conducted with 41 teachers and 35 parents in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Teachers and parents were found to hold different perceptions of parental involvement. Responses further revealed that Chinese parents practiced more home-based involvement than preschool-based involvement, and that Chinese parents also have layers of responsibilities that limit their level of involvement in children's early development; (2) items of the CEPIS were developed using focus group responses. To validate the scale, 319 parents were asked to complete the new CEPIS. Results from principal-components factor analyses established that the resultant 26-item CEPIS consists of six parental involvement dimensions. Further analyses revealed that parental involvement differed as a function of parents' marital status and employment status. The major findings, implications and limitations of this research are discussed, together with directions for future research.[Copyright of International Journal of Early Years Education is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09669760.2012.743099]
- Contains 4 tables
-
- English
- Journal Articles
-
- 09669760
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/209687cf
- 2014-01-18
Recent Journal Articles
在香港幼稚園推行STEM (科學、科技、工程及數學)教育的挑戰之初探Journal Articles
Whole-day or half-day kindergarten? Chinese parents' perceptions, needs, and decisions in a privatised marketplaceJournal Articles
Voices without words: Doing critical literate talk in English as a second languageJournal Articles
Using the genre-based approach in teaching chinese written composition to South Asian ethnic minority students in Hong KongJournal Articles
Translanguaging as dynamic activity flows in CLIL classroomsJournal Articles
Does obesity persist from childhood to adolescence? A 4-year prospective cohort study of Chinese students in Hong KongJournal Articles
Co-developing science literacy and foreign language literacy through “Concept + Language Mapping”Journal Articles
Examining the role of institutional agents and school-based social capital in minority university choice and accessJournal Articles