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The Comprehensive English Language Learning Assessment (CELLA) is a four-modality English language proficiency developed jointly by AccountabilityWorks and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). CELLA is designed to provide:
- Evidence of program accountability in accordance with Title III of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), which calls for schools and districts to meet state accountability objectives for increasing the English-language proficiency of English Language Learners.
- Data useful for charting student progress over time and, for newly arrived students, charting progress over the first year.
- Information about the language proficiency levels of individual students that can be used in making decisions regarding placement into, or exit from, ESL or bilingual education programs.
- Diagnostically useful information about individual students’ strengths and weaknesses in English (with as much specificity as possible within the limitations of a large-scale standardized test).
- Initial development of CELLA was funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
- The test was developed by AccountabilityWorks and ETS and a consortium of five states: Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
- The test items included in this assessment are based on the CELLA proficiency benchmarks that, in turn, are aligned to the English language development standards of the five consortium states.
- Each test level is associated with specific grades and provides assessment in four modalities: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing.
- Listening and Speaking items were calibrated together on a single vertical scale. In addition, vertical scales for Reading and for Writing were created.
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