Author(s)

Shihan Zhang ¹, Nihao Jiang ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Education, Chuxiong Normal University, Chuxiong, 675000, China
² School of Resources, Environment and Chemistry, Chuxiong Normal University, Chuxiong, 675000, China

Corresponding Author

Shihan Zhang

ABSTRACT

According to the available literature, there is no report on the quantitative evaluation system of indoor environmental creation of rural kindergarten. The purpose of this study is to lay the foundation for the comprehensive quality evaluation of the indoor environmental creation of rural kindergarten. Thirty rural kindergartens in northeast Yunnan province were selected as the research material. The comprehensive quality of the rural kindergarten indoor environment was synthetically analyzed by the method of analytic hierarchy process, weighted grey correlation analysis and principal component analysis. The comprehensive evaluation index system of indoor environmental creation in rural kindergarten was established, which included 3 dimensions (indoor basic conditions, environmental support and spatial layout) and 19 indexes. The results shown that the weight coefficient of indoor basic condition index was largest (0.5396). Abundant variations have been observed in the values of these evaluation indexes among the thirty rural kindergartens, and the variation coefficient was from 0% to 101.15%. The results of principal component analysis and weighted grey correlation analysis were consistent, the comprehensive quality of indoor environmental creation in this region from high to low was small class of private kindergarten, middle class of private kindergarten, and big class of private kindergarten. Reading area (C11), role-playing area (C9), the layout of indoor activity areas (C19), language area (C8), and the basics material conditions for indoor activities (C2) were determined as the five representative indicators for the evaluation of the indoor environment creation of rural kindergarten. The evaluation index system for the indoor environment creation of rural kindergarten is scientific, reliable and comprehensive. It can provide reference and direction for improving the existing evaluation content and formulating evaluation standards.

KEYWORDS

rural kindergarten, indoor environment creation, evaluation index system, grey relational analysis, analytic hierarchy process

CITE THIS PAPER

Shihan Zhang, Nihao Jiang, Construction of Comprehensive Evaluation Index System of Indoor Environmental Creation of Rural Kindergarten: A Case Study of Rural Kindergarten in Northeast Yunnan Province. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2022) Vol. 6: 15-36. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2022.061103.

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