摘要：The purpose of this paper was to explore and highlight the problems faced by the practitioners
pertinent to early childhood education program evaluation using a qualitative paradigm. This
paper is an extracted section of a larger global study that was conducted to complete the doctoral
thesis requirement. The purpose of the study was to explore the problems faced by the
practitioners in early childhood education program evaluation. The research questions were
framed to investigate perspectives of the 20 global experts through non random snowball sampling
technique. The data were collected using in depth interviews and detailed thematic analysis were
conducted. Results revealed that access, permission from the government, expertise of evaluators
and contextual differences are the major problems that are faced while carrying out early
childhood program evaluation. In the conclusion section of this study, brief reflective analysis of
the phenomenon is presented in alignment with the study findings.
关键词：Early childhood education; evaluation; program evaluation
