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MELQO (UNESCO/UNICEF)
UNESCO / UNICEF · 2017
Normative Research
This is a population-level study. Its data informs the age windows and confidence scores behind our milestone predictions — telling us when most children reach a given milestone, and how much variation exists.
Countries
12
countries represented
Age range
4 years
to 6 years
Milestones covered
30
in our corpus
Coverage by age & domain
Each cell shows how many items this source covers in that age band and developmental category. Darker = more coverage.
| 0–12mo | 12–24mo | 24–36mo | 36–48mo | 48–60mo | 60mo+ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curriculum | 1 | 29 | 29 | 28 |
Domains assessed
LanguageCognitionMotorSocial & emotional
How we used it
30 items mapped to canonical milestones via construct_mappings.
Citation
UNESCO / UNICEF (2017). MELQO: Measuring Early Learning Quality and Outcomes. Paris: UNESCO.
Developmental milestones (30)
Canonical milestones in our developmental ontology that cite this source.
- Interested in reading printed materialmilestone · 36–72mo
- Communicates needs understandably to adults and peersmilestone · 36–72mo
- Names food items and animals from memorymilestone · 36–72mo
- Identifies beginning sound of familiar wordsmilestone · 36–72mo
- Identifies at least 10 letters of the alphabetmilestone · 36–72mo
- Writes own namemilestone · 36–72mo
- Understands on first try what is being saidmilestone · 36–72mo
- Answers questions about a short storymilestone · 36–72mo
- Counts as high as possible verballymilestone · 36–72mo
- Counts ten objects correctlymilestone · 48–54mo
- Identifies written numerals up to 5, 10, or 20milestone · 36–72mo
- Adds three and two together mentallymilestone · 36–72mo
- Gives specified number of objects on requestmilestone · 36–72mo
- Compares magnitude of two numbersmilestone · 36–72mo
- Names basic shapes (circle, triangle, or square)milestone · 27–39mo
- Completes a five-piece puzzlemilestone · 36–72mo
- Understands on, under, in front of, and next tomilestone · 36–72mo
- Identifies shape formed by puzzle piecesmilestone · 36–72mo
- Plans ahead before beginning an activitymilestone · 36–72mo
- Stops an activity when told to do somilestone · 36–72mo
- Does not rudely intrude on othersmilestone · 36–72mo
- Maintains appropriate activity level, not over-activemilestone · 36–72mo
- Freely explores new environmentsmilestone · 36–72mo
- Adjusts easily to new situations and transitionsmilestone · 36–72mo
- Settles down after periods of exciting activitymilestone · 36–72mo
- Able to sit still when appropriatemilestone · 36–72mo
- Shows self-control when sharing or interactingmilestone · 36–72mo
- Shows consideration for other people's feelingsmilestone · 36–72mo
- Offers to help someone who seems to need itmilestone · 36–72mo
- Shares with peers willinglymilestone · 36–72mo