In 1996, the Curriculum Development Institute published the Guide to Pre-primary Curriculum stressing all-around development (Education Department 1996).
A new Guide to the Pre-primary Curriculum was published by the Curriculum Development Council (2006) to specify the requirements.
Kindergarten Child Care Centre 2000s Educational Reform (1) Performance Indicators — provided a standard for assessing early childhood education in Hong Kong and published Guide to Pre-primary Curriculum (2006).
(1) identified "Performance Indicators" as the standards, (2) developed "Quality Assurance mechanism" that mapped on to the standards, (3) published "Guide to Pre-primary Curriculum" based on the standards and assessments, and.
Improving the quality assurance mechanism In 2000, the erstwhile Education Department and the SWD introduced Performance Indicators (PIs), which incorporated the curriculum aims of the 1996 Guide to Pre-primary Curriculum.
The revised guide to the pre-primary curriculum was implemented in September 2007 to provide the basic principles and direction for pre-school educators to develop their school-based programmes.
The pre-primary curriculum will harmonize with Bangladesh's primary school curriculum.
All kindergartens in Hong Kong follow the Guide to the Pre-primary Curriculum mentioned earlier.
Newly developed items were also added to reflect the cohort changes and current expectations for early child development with reference of the Guide to the Pre-primary Curriculum (Curriculum Development Council, HKSAR 2006).
Although there might be different expectations for child development among families with different backgrounds, these additional domains are consistent with the child developmental goals expressed in the Guide to the Pre-primary Curriculum and therefore could be considered as reflecting the expectations for young children in Hong Kong.
As items in Opper's instruments (1996) were basically selected from tests used in the Western countries, we developed some new items with reference to the Guide to the Pre-primary Curriculum (Curriculum Development Council, HKSAR 2006) and relevant literature to better fit the Hong Kong situation and to reflect cohort effects and secular trends (20 items).
