Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study the factors and approaches on quality development of educational management for toddlers of child development center in Chonburi province through the factor affecting analysis; quality of educational management analysis, develop and validate the consistency of the structural equation modeling with the empirical data; and approaches on quality development. This mixed-method research had an explanatory sequential design, and the first main focus was on the quantitative phase whereas the qualitative phase was conducted to explain the quantitative results. Phase 1 of the study was quantitative data with the sample of 280 people consisting of early childhood teachers who were teaching in child development center under the jurisdiction of Chonburi Local Administrative Organization was selected by stratified random sampling. The instrument used was a questionnaire. Data analysis was mean, standard deviation and was analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling. Phase 2 of the study was qualitative data using interviews from 9 key informants, selected by purposive sampling and snowball. The instrument used was a interviews form and was analyzed by content analysis. The research results were summarized as follows: 1. Factors affecting to quality development of educational management for toddlers of child development center in Chonburi province consisting of Organization Administrators, Quality Culture and Teacher Spirituality. 2. Quality of educational management for toddlers of child development center in Chonburi province consisting of Learning Designer, Learning Space, Visible Learning, Play worker and Transition from home to child development center. 3. The structural equation modeling model fit with the empirical data as Chi-squared = 145.43,CFI = 0.98,TLI = 0.97,RNI = 0.98,SRMR = 0.02 and RMSEA = 0.06 4. Approaches for quality development consist of (1)developing the administrators to be the educational Leaders, (2) creating the quality culture in the organization, (3) growing the teachers spirit for early childhood teachers to be more determined, and (4) advocating the competence in science for early childhood teachers to be the holistic teachers.