Relationship between facilities provided, programmes offered and teacher’s characteristics of kindergarten towards parents’ satisfaction / Siti Naziera Mohd Daud

Early childhood education is important to build good early experiences for child’s growth with the understanding that all children’s learning and development occur in the context ofrelationships with other children, parents, other family members, educators and broader environment. However, parents nowadays are not like the parents of yesteryears where time spent with their children is very limited due to workload and other responsibility that they cannot avoid. They have no choice but to send their children to kindergartens to get a proper education and to train them to be independent. So, the main purpose of this research is to help the guardians or parents to choose a better kindergarten. Self- administrated questionnaires were distributed to 200 of parents in Kuching area. This research examines the influences of facilities, teacher’s characteristics, and
kindergarten’s programmes towards parents’ satisfaction on kindergarten. From this research outcomes teacher’s characteristics is the factor that give higher influence on Parents’ satisfaction towards kindergarten. However, Facilities and Kindergarten’s Programmes also give the positive results which also will influence in choosing a better kindergarten to their children.