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The purpose of this research is attempting to review and integrate studies of early childhood educational vouchers policy literature, published between 1997 to 2009 in Taiwan. The total of the samples was 67 reports,including of 16 master theses,1 doctoral dissertation,47 article in journal or conference proceedings, and 3 project reports. Following approaches used by each researchers, samples were classified as two types, qauantitative and qualitative. All reports are analyzed based on the six educational voucher topics: theoretical debates ,policy awareness, policy design, policy objectives, policy implementation, and the policy evaluation and satisfaction. A meta-analysis was employed to recount frequency distribution of all qauantitative studies by topics showed above. In terms of qualitative researches, a content analysis was utilized to sort out all issues and arguments regarding voucher policy. As a summary on the results of this study I conclude: 1. The connotation of educational vouchers theory and Taiwan Early Childhood Educational Vouchers Policy are not the same meanings, including of “educational vouchers amount”, “implementation of the educational stage” , “right of school choice”, “distribution way”, “education voucher fund ownership” and “school funding”. 2. Data-type information revealed that Taiwan Early Childhood Educational Vouchers Policy can achieve the policy objectives of “promote unregistered kindergarten and nursery to register” and “provide the right of school choice” . And the policy objectives of “fair and reasonable distribution of resources”, “reduce the burden on parents”, and “reduce the gap between public and private tuition” are hard to achieve. 3. Data-type information revealed that the highly satisfaction of Taiwan Early Childhood Educational Vouchers Policy is “reduce the gap between public and private tuition”. 4. According to the policy essence, this study does not recommend Taiwan Early Childhood Education Vouchers Policy to exclude any child with any status and conditions from the practice. 5. The policy awareness of Taiwan Early Childhood Educational Vouchers Policy had been reach over 90%, this study recommend the follow-up research no longer to take investigation on this issue.
Finally, according to the research results, I provide suggestions to the Early Childhood Educational Vouchers Policy in Taiwan and the future research.
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