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Comprehensive English Language Learning Assessment (CELLA) Online
Uses
- Program placement for ESL or bilingual programs.
- To the extent possible in a comprehensive assessment, detailed diagnostic breakouts that teachers can use in data-driven instructional decision making.
- Data useful for charting individual and group progress over time, including a student’s first year in a school system.
Development and Design
- CELLA was developed by AccountabilityWorks and ETS and a consortium of five states: Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
- Research-based emphasis on Academic English to assist in determining whether students have the English language skills to succeed in a general education environment.
- Standards-based assessment measures content benchmarks developed after review of English language proficiency standards in multiple states.
- CELLA Online includes English proficiency levels at Beginning, Low Intermediate, High Intermediate, and Proficient levels at each grade, K through 12. Proficiency levels are adjusted for Fall, Winter, or Spring test administration.
- Functionally-based (rather than grade-based) assessment in Reading and Writing assures a non-frustrating experience as well as reliable scores for students at a very wide range of literacy levels.
- Three core vertical scales (Listening/Speaking, Reading, Writing) and two composite scales (Comprehension, Total) permit reports describing score gains over time.
Administration
- CELLA Online is available as several single modality assessments—Listening/Speaking, or Reading, or Writing—or as a comprehensive assessment that includes all modalities.
- Students take all sections of CELLA Online using a computer connected to the internet.
- Test administration ranges from 15 - 40 minutes for Level A modality assessments to 35 - 70 minutes for Level D modality assessments.
Scoring
- No teacher hand-scoring of multiple-choice items or the overall test!
- Scores and reports are instantly available as soon as students complete the test and teachers enter ratings for open response items (e.g., speaking items, some writing items).
Reports
- A range of reports are available on demand at the individual/class/grade/school levels, including proficiency levels, content subcategories, scale scores, diagnostic breakouts, snapshots/trends, gain scores, etc.
- Reports are designed to assist teachers in addressing individual student needs.
- Data are accessible online at any time using a secure username and password system.
Pricing
- District and school bulk purchases start at unlimited full school year licenses for 25 students. Standard bulk pricing details in the United States available here. Standard bulk pricing details outside the United States available here.
Technology
- The system is accessed online through a computer using a recent version of any of the following major browsers: Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox. No software is installed on local client or server computers.
Partnership
- We are proud to partner with The Global Institute for Language and Literacy Development (GILD) in pursuit of improved outcomes for English Language Learners (ELLs). To find out more information about GILD, please visit their website here.
Interested in additional information about CELLA?
- The CELLA brochure provides a short, two-page description: CELLA brochure (5.6mb)
Other Resources
The U.S. Department of Education has published a useful set of research-based publications on serving ELLs:
Instruction and Academic Interventions
Serving Adolescent Newcomers
Use of Accommodations in Large-scale Assessments
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