Assessing the quality of toddlers child care environment from mothers' perspectives

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Background: The purpose of the current study was to illustrate how important the early child care environment; this study is designed to know the mothers' perspectives about the quality of the early childhood education and environment in Saudi Arabia.

As nowadays the majority of mothers is in the workforce and thus has less time with their children.

Significance: This study is investigating mother's perspectives about assessing the quality of toddlers' child care environment.

Most of the brain development occurs during the first five years hence the research takes its importance as the research clarify how high-quality early childhood education and environment benefits children’s cognitive, language, and social development both in the short and the long term.

Results: The results from this study revealed that high quality Early Childhood Education (ECE) and environment will support better children learning outcomes.

Besides, we need to put measures to make sure that all children are assessed equally.

Recommendation: It is crucial for families to understand the age-appropriate assessment standards that use to evaluate the quality of early childhood centres and its purpose to enhance children learning and development in order to achieve equity and excellence for all of toddlers.