AZELLA Placement Test
Students who require an AZELLA Placement Test must be administered the Placement Test and the parents notified of the results within 2 calendar weeks from the student's school enrollment date. Check the student's EL70 Report first to determine if a student should be tested or to confirm that the student has a valid and current AZELLA test record.
- New Kindergarten and new-to-Arizona students with a Home Language Survey that has one or more responses indicating a language other than English.
- EL students with their last AZELLA test record showing as Undetermined.
- EL students who require a new Placement Test. DTCs and STCs can identify these students by reviewing the students' EL70 Reports and schools' EL73 Reports for the following information:
- EL70 Report - yellow/green triangle with red font quick alert message
- EL73 Report - EL Group 8
Kindergarten Students
Kindergarten students who have been enrolled in school for more than 60 calendar days and have not been administered the Kindergarten Placement Test (KPT), do not administer the KPT now. These Kindergarten students will need to be included in the Spring 2023 Reassessment testing to be administered the Kindergarten Reassessment Test instead of the KPT. These students will need to be manually registered in PAN by the DTC or STC for the Spring 2023 AZELLA Reassessment Test in late January 2023. DO NOT administer the KPT to these students.
Newly enrolled Kindergarten students, who have never been enrolled in school anywhere in the USA (Grade K), must be administered the KPT within 2 calendar weeks from the students' school enrollment date.
NEW AZELLA Sample Tests
The new AZELLA tests aligned to the 2019 English Language Proficiency Standards will be administered for the first time during the Spring 2023 Reassessment test window. ADE has developed new AZELLA Sample Tests so students have plenty of opportunities to become familiar with the mode of administration, test design, and item types of the test they will be taking in the spring.
The Grades 2 - 12 Sample Tests are available in TestNav via the application and the browser version at https://az.testnav.com/client/index.html. No username or password is required to access the Sample Tests. The new printable Sample Test Student Test Books for Grades K - 3, as well as the accompanying audio files and Teacher's Editions, are available for downloading in the Support >> Documentation section in PearsonAccessNext.
It is the AZELLA DTC's and STC's responsibility to download and distribute these digital kits to teachers. Detailed information on the New AZELLA Sample Tests can be found in the AZELLA webpage under, "AZELLA New Sample Test Information". ADE hosted a webinar on the New AZELLA Sample Tests on 08/26/2022. You can view the webinar at: https://vimeo.com/743586296.
Spring 2023 AZELLA Reassessment Test Administration
January 30 - March 17, 2023: Test Window - Test Early!
Note: Grades 1-12 students who are required to be administered the Placement Test, must be administered the Placement Test within 2 calendar weeks of their school enrollment date. Students who are administered the Placement Test on and after January 2, 2023, are not required to participate in the Spring 2023 Reassessment Test.
Shipping Address Verifications and Grades K-3 Reassessment Participation Counts for the Spring 2023 Reassessment Test
- When: November 28 - December 9, 2022
- Where: Inside of PearsonAccessNext > Spring 2023 Reassessment administration
- How: Two sources of information
- Special AZELLAology session, Thursday Nov. 17, 2022 8:00-9:30am
- Pearson will send step-by-step directions to all DTCs on November 22
- Who: ALL AZELLA DTCs
- DTCs with schools that serve K-3 students must complete the counts for K-3 students only - Pearson must know how many test materials to print for your district.
- All AZELLA DTCs must verify shipping addresses (these addresses do not transfer over from the Placement administration)
If the address needs to be changed, you must send an email to AZELLA@azed.gov with the District/Charter District name and Entity number and the correct address. If a shipping address was changed for the Placement administration, the new addresses will not be included for the Reassessment administration.
REQUIRED Spring Reassessment Test Training Modules
- Opens: January 10, 2023
- Where: ATMS - https://az.tms.pearson.com/
- Categories (AZELLA Roles): DTC, STC, and Test Administrators
- Training Modules:
- Annual training modules for those who have not completed them
- Reassessment training modules by AZELLA role (category)
- DTC-STC module
- Grades K-1 module (DTC, STC, and TA with schools that serve grades K-1)
- Grades 2-3 module (DTC, STC, and TA with schools that serve grades 2-3)
- Grades 4-12 module (DTC, STC, and TA with schools that serve grades 4-12)
You may refer to the AZELLA Training Requirements by AZELLA Role 2022 - 2023. All required training modules must be completed in the correct category (e.g., DTC, STC, and Test Administrator) prior to PAN accounts being enabled for the Spring Reassessment administration. If a Test Administrator will only be administering the Reassessment Test for any grades 4-12, then that TA only needs to complete the Grades 4-12 training module. When a TA is administering the Reassessment Test for grades 1 and 2, that TA must complete the K-1 and the 2-3 training modules. AZELLA DTC PAN accounts for the Spring Reassessment administration will be enabled on and after January 20, 2023.
Paper Test Materials for the Reassessment Test
For districts who complete their K-3 Participation Counts in December, Pearson will ship enough materials to test that many students by grade level, plus a 5% district overage to the shipping address on file for the Spring Reassessment Test administration. These materials are scheduled to arrive between January 17 - 20, 2023. Someone must be available to sign for the shipments. The paper test materials and the Pre-ID Labels will be shipped separately and are expected to arrive during the same week. DTCs will have an opportunity to order additional materials after the materials received have been inventoried. Pre-ID Labels cannot be ordered. If you have NOT received your materials by Monday, January 23, please contact ADE by sending an email to AZELLA@azed.gov. You must wait until January 23 before contacting ADE.
KEEP the boxes that the materials arrive in because you will use the same boxes to return the materials at the end of the test window.
Student Data and School Enrollment for the Spring Reassessment Pre-Registration (all grades) and K-3 Pre-ID Labels
January 4 and 5, 2023
Please ensure that school enrollments, withdrawals, and EL program services have been synchronized from your SIS to AzEDS by January 4, 2023. Placement Test records that are in the AZELLA Corrections application need to be corrected by January 4. This data needs to be complete because ADE will be extracting all Kindergarten through Grade 12 EL student data on January 5 to send to Pearson for pre-registering these students for the Spring Reassessment Test and printing K-3 Pre-ID Labels.
Mark your calendar to print your EL73 - EL Student Need Report on January 5, 2023. On January 20, or when your PAN account for the Spring Reassessment administration is enabled, print another EL73 report because you will want to compare the January 5th EL73 Report to the new EL73 Report. This will help you identify the students who have not been registered for the Reassessment Test in your schools and need to be added to PAN or transferred (Work Request) in PAN from a different School.
Students who are not included in the January 5 extracted student data file will require the DTCs and STCs to add these students to PAN and register them for the Reassessment Test.
Not all K-3 students will receive a Pre-ID Label. Those who don't receive a label and for those whose labels are incorrect, the students must still be tested. The students must be added to PAN and the Student Data Demographic Grid on the back cover of the students' paper test books must be completed by the DTC and STCs prior to the students testing.
