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Survey"(2)Analyzing the current status of Taiwan's early childhood
education and its main problems(3)Research on best practices related to

compulsory early childhood education in major countries of the world.
2. Focus group discussions:problems and solutions pertaining to the
imposition of early childhood education
3. Questionnaire : Explore the impact of stakeholders on the imposition of

compulsory early childhood education.
4. Secondary data analysis: Estimate the data that provides information
on early school enrollment, funding, availability of spaces, teaching
certifications, and needs for five-year-old compulsory education.

Conclusions and recommendations of this study are as follows:

1. Legal problems and solutions: Inviting experts to study the possibility
and feasibility of revisions of the law. The Compulsory Education Law
can be amended to serve as a legal source to allow five-year-olds to
be included in the compulsory education, similarly as how the "Senior
High School Education Act" became the legal source to the 12-year
national "Compulsory Education Law". This legal source can help to truly
implement compulsory education for five-year-old children.

2. Identifying quality assurance issues of teaching and its solution strategy:
In order to screen the kindergartens to maintain a certain level of teaching
quality as being a suitable place to implement compulsory education for
five-year-old children, scholars and experts in the educational field should
be invited to provide objective indicators to determine the quality of
education provided at the kindergartens.

3. Problems and solutions for the availability of classroom spaces: Space for
compulsory early education for five-year-old children falls short by