摘要：The purpose of the study was to assess the knowledge of infant development of child care teachers, undergraduate students majoring in child development at universities,and the students at child care training centers. A qucstionnaire was distributed to 126 in-service and 187 pre -service child care teachers. Data were analyzed by t-test,F-test,Correlation. The results showed that the mean scores of subjects on the Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory (KIDD) were relatively low. Among the 3 groups of subjects,child care teachers had the lowest scores on the KIDI There were individual differences in the knowledge of infant development by school year,the length of work experience,marital status, age of child,attendance at in-service training events,and kind of license.
关键词：knowledge of infant development;child care teacher;pre-service child care teacher
