Ranking Preschools The Methodology

“India’s Top Preschool Ranking 2019” is divided into two categories — Standalone Preschool Ranking and Franchise Preschool Ranking. The rankings to different preschools have been allotted on the basis of various parameters listed below under the aforementioned categories.

In this perception-based ranking, standalone preschools have been covered in five zones — North, South, East, West and Central, whereas franchise preschools have been covered from various cities of the country.

Ranking top preschools of India is one of the most challenging tasks, given the large size of the educational ecosystem. To start with, the ranking questionnaires were sent to over 1,500 preschools across the country.The response on this ranking activity was overwhelming, with over 1,200 schools replying to our queries.

Standalone category includes the preschools which do not sell their franchise. These are self owned centres managed by a single company, committee or trust. The location can be in any part of the city or across different cities of the country.
Below are the certain considered parameters to rank Standalone Preschools:

Holistic Development of Students: Ranking under this parameter is based on how preschools focus on addressing all of its students’ emotional, physical, relational, intellectual, creative and spiritual needs. This perspective to development encourages caregivers and teachers to look at the child in entirety instead of focusing on individual aspects of personality.

Infrastructure: One of the key parameters to ensuring healthy, safe and hygienic learning environment for kids in preschools. The schools were evaluated on the basis of infrastructural aspects of the school like classrooms, transitional spaces and supervisable circulation spaces (such as hallways and corridors).

Pedagogy: It refers to the study of how knowledge and skills are imparted in an educational context. Based on the below mentioned factors, the ranking of preschool taken forward to. (1) Curriculum or what is being taught (2) Teaching methodology or the ways followed to teach the toddlers and (3) Methods followed by preschools to develop cognitive and affective skills.

Student Enrollment: The number of students enrolled annually is what being analysed in this parameter. The focus is broadly on the preschool enrollment in the last five years. After a comparative analysis of the last five-year report, ranks are allotted to a preschool in this segment.

Innovation in ICT Usage: In today’s competitive and fast changing world, Information Communication Technology (ICT) plays an important role for a student’s overall development. Under this parameter, factors like, promoting latest technology tools for learning, keeping best security practices through ICT, innovative teaching and use of ICT to link home and school effectively have been considered to rank the preschools.

Education is India’s fastest growing franchise business sector after food and beverage. The preschools by selling their franchises establish centres across the country for fulfilling basic educational needs of the children in their early learning years. The ranking of preschool franchises is done on the basis of following parameters:

Success in Franchise: To determine the ranks under this parameter, various important factors like, standards followed by all the franchise of a brand are followed or not, employee training, services provided to customers, involvement with the community, communication rate between franchisor and franchise are considered.

Innovation in Pedagogy: Pedagogy is the discipline that deals with the theory and practice of education. Innovation in pedagogy draws more interest of kids towards the subject. So, it is an important parameter to decide rank for a franchise preschool.

Quality Assurance: Quality assurance is the systematic process to check whether a product or service being developed is meeting specified requirements or not. For a preschool, quality assurance is to boost customer confidence and a school’s credibility. Quality assurance helps a preschool franchise to improve work processes and efficiency, and enable it to compete with others. In order to get ranked among the top preschools franchises, they have to follow and abide by the certain quality standards.

Preferred Preschool Franchise: The parameter is about the preschool preferences of parents for their wards. Usually the preference is decided on the basis of a preschools chain’s goodwill among the public, its quality of education, facilities like security and safety of kids, hygiene and transportation arrangements. The above mentioned parameters decides how your preschool is better than others in each and every aspect possible.

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