AZELLA definition

AZELLA means the Arizona English Language Learner Assessment, the examination used to assess the English language proficiency of students in Arizona in grades kindergarten through twelve whose primary or home language is other than English. AZELLA shall include the initial assessment used to identify EL students and the annual assessment of their progress toward proficiency in English.

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AZELLA means Arizona English Language Learner Assessment. The AZELLA is used to determine the English language proficiency of Arizona K-12 students whose primary home language is other than English. AZELLA results include a composite proficiency level score, which is a composite of all of the subtest scores, and also separate subtest scores, i.e., Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Total Writing (Writing Conventions and Writing combined). The AZELLA also includes an oral language score, which combines listening and speaking subtest scores, and a comprehension score, which combines listening and reading subtest scores. Sub-level scores for grouping purposes are Oral Language, Reading, and Total Writing. (See A.R.S. §15-756.B)

Examples of AZELLA in a sentence

• By July 25, 2016, the notification to LEAs of new cut scores; revised AZELLA score reports demonstrating the new scores; and AZELLA District Test Coordinator’s mandatory Placement Test training materials related to Paragraphs 11 and 12.

• The complainant alleges that this is due to ADE’s use of the Stanford English Language Proficiency (SELP) test and, later, the Arizona English Language Learner Assessment (AZELLA) (along with their respective scoring procedures), as the sole reclassification criterion for ELL students statewide.

• ADE will share information regarding the new cut scores in newsletters produced by ▇▇▇’s OELAS Section for ELL directors and ADE’s Assessment Section for AZELLA test coordinators before the end of SY 2015-16, and at the May 2016 PELL meeting, which is attended by ELL directors and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ test coordinators from most of Arizona’s LEAs with significant populations.

• The complainaint alleged that this is due to ADE’s use of the Stanford English Language Proficiency (SELP) test and, later, the Arizona English Language Learner Assessment (AZELLA) test (along with their respective scoring procedures), as the sole reclassification criterion for ELL students statewide.

• By July 25, 2016, the letter to LEAs required by Paragraphs 15 and 16; the Follow-up survey required by Paragraph 16; and the AZELLA District Test Coordinator’s mandatory Placement Test training materials related to Paragraph 17.

• After a comprehensive investigation, OCR and DOJ found that between 2006 and 2012 ADE prematurely exited and underidentified tens of thousands of ELL students with the AZELLA 1 and 2 (the AZ-1 and AZ-2) in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d, and its implementing regulations, and DOJ further found that ADE was not in compliance with the Equal Educational Opportunities Act (EEOA), 20 U.S.C. § 1703(f).

• By July 1, 2016, ADE will direct LEAs to offer appropriate English language support services to currently enrolled IFEP and FEP students with Proficient AZELLA scores that do not meet the newly established cut scores and who did not perform in the classroom comparably to their English Only peers in SY 2015-16.