AZELLA Placement Test
Students who require an AZELLA Placement Test must be administered the Placement Test and the parents notified of the results within two weeks of the student's enrollment in the school.
- 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 message
- EL73 Report - EL Group 8
Mid-Year AZELLA Placement Test Window
November 15 - December 17, 2021
Optional - Not Required
Eligible EL High School (Grades 9-12) Students ONLY
- Must submit to ADE no later than November 6
- Eligibility Qualifications:
- Must be enrolled in SEI or DLI services for a minimum of 9 weeks this school year
- Most recent AZELLA test record must be from School Year 2020-2021
- Overall Proficiency Level (OPL) = Intermediate
- Total Combined Proficiency Level (TCPL) = Intermediate or Proficient
- Domain Proficiency Levels = Intermediate or Proficient
- Domain Scale Scores = 247 and higher
Student recommendations must be submitted to AZELLA@azed.gov no later than Friday, November 5, 2021. These will be reviewed by ADE, and qualified students will be approved by Friday, November 12, 2021. ADE will notify DTCs of those students who have been approved to participate. Approved students may be registered in PAN by the DTC or STC beginning November 15, 2021. Students must be added to the "Approved HS Mid-Year" test session that you will need to create in PAN. All Mid-Year Placement Tests must be administered and submitted for scoring by the close of business on Friday, December 17, 2021.
Students who score "Proficient" for their Overall Proficiency Level are to be reclassified through your SIS and pushed to AzEDS, moved to mainstream classes, and are not eligible to participate in any further AZELLA testing.
Students who score an Overall Proficiency Level of less than Proficient on the Mid-Year AZELLA Placement Test will remain in EL services and must participate in the Spring 2022 AZELLA Reassessment Test.
Fall 2021 AZELLA Stand-Alone Field Test
The AZELLA Team has been receiving wonderful feedback from many DTCs about the administration of the Fall 2021 AZELLA Stand-Alone Field Test (SAFT). They have indicated that it has been easy to administer, and the students have not had technical difficulties.
To date, there have been approximately 6,000 Grades 1 and 2 SAFT tests completed and 16,500 Grades 3-12 SAFT tests completed.
All students who have been and will be administered an AZELLA Placement Test this school year through December 1, 2021 and received an Overall Proficiency Level of less than Proficient are required to be administered the SAFT before December 10, 2021.
Please do not return any SAFT materials until after the test window closes. You need to follow the directions in the Fall 2021 SAFT Test Coordinator Manual for packing and shipping Scorable and Nonscorable materials. Boxes must be retrieved by UPS or dropped off at a UPS store no later than Friday, December 17, 2021. You must keep a list of all tracking numbers and send those to AZELLA@azed.gov with the date that UPS picked up the boxes.
Districts and schools will not be receiving any reports from the SAFT administration.
Spring 2022 AZELLA Reassessment Test Administration
Test Window: January 31 - March 18, 2022
Participation Counts and Shipping Addresses for the Spring 2022 Reassessment Test - Districts that Serve K-2 Students
- When: November 29 - December 10, 2021
- Where: Inside of PearsonAccessNext > Spring 2022 Reassessment administration
- Who: DTCs complete the counts for K-2 students only
- Reason: To receive an initial shipment of Reassessment paper test materials and to confirm the shipping address for the district
- How: Pearson will send step-by-step directions to all K-2 DTCs on November 29, 2021
Pearson will pre-populate the headcount of K-2 students for the Spring Reassessment administration. The pre-populated counts come from your EL73 Report as of November 12, 2021. You may have more or fewer Kindergarten and Grades 1 and 2 EL students by the time you complete these counts.
DTCs must edit (if needed) and confirm these counts in PAN by December 10, 2021 so Pearson can print enough paper test materials and get them sent as an initial shipment to districts for distribution to schools in late January 2022. For schools that have zero students with an EL need at any of the K-2 grades, then a zero count must be confirmed.
- Students who were administered the AZELLA Placement Test on or after October 11, 2021 and received an OPL of less than Proficient must be added to the pre-populated counts in PAN.
- Students with an EL need who have transferred into your school(s) after November 11, 2021 must be added to the pre-populated counts in PAN.
DTCs must also use this two-week window to confirm the shipping address for their district(s). This is the address where the initial shipment and additional shipments of the Spring Reassessment paper materials will be sent. 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 and/or SAFT administration, the new addresses will not be included for the Reassessment administration. All mailing addresses are pulled from ADEConnect's Education Organization System application.
January 3, 2022
Kindergarten students who have been enrolled in school between July 1 - December 31, 2021 and were not administered the Kindergarten Placement Test (KPT) will need to be included in the Spring 2022 Reassessment testing and administered the Stage I Reassessment Test instead of the KPT. These students will need to be manually registered in PAN by the DTC or STC for the Stage I Spring AZELLA Reassessment Test. DO NOT administer the KPT to these students.
Newly enrolled (on and after January 3, 2022) Kindergarten students who have never been enrolled in school (Grade K) can be administered the KPT.
Grades 1-12 students who are required to be administered the Placement Test, must be administered the Placement Test. Students who are administered the Placement Test on and after January 3, 2022 will not participate in the Spring 2022 Reassessment Test.
REQUIRED Spring Reassessment Test Training Modules
- Opens: January 3, 2022
- Where: ATMS - https://az.tms.pearson.com/
- Categories (AZELLA Roles): DTC, STC, and Test Administrators
- Training Modules:
- DTC-STC SPR21 Reassessment Test
- K-2 SPR21 Reassessment Test (districts who serve Grades K-2 students)
- Grades 3-12 SPR21 Reassessment Test
You may refer to the AZELLA Training Requirements 2021-2022. 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. AZELLA DTC PAN accounts for the Spring Reassessment administration will be enabled on and after January 21, 2022.
Paper Test Materials for the Reassessment Test
For districts who complete their K-2 Participation Counts in December, Pearson will ship that many plus a 5% district overage of the paper test materials to the shipping address on file for the test administration. These materials are scheduled to arrive at the shipping address from PAN between January 18-21, 2022. The paper test materials and the Pre-ID labels will be shipped separately and arrive during the same week. DTCs will have an opportunity to order additional materials after the materials received have been inventoried.
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.
Pre-Registration and Pre-ID Labels for the Reassessment Test
January 6, 2022
Please ensure that school enrollments and EL program services have been synchronized from your SIS to AzEDS by January 5, 2022 and any Placement Test records that are in the AZELLA Corrections application are corrected by January 5. This data needs to be complete because ADE will be extracting all Kindergarten through Grade 12 EL student data on January 6, 2022 to send to Pearson for pre-registering these students for the Spring Reassessment Test and printing K-2 Pre-ID labels.
You should mark your calendar for January 6, 2022 to print your EL73 - EL Student Need Report on this day. On January 21, 2022 or when your account for the Reassessment administration is enabled, you will want to compare the January 6, 2022 EL73 Report to a new EL73 Report. This will help you identify the students who have not been registered for the test in your schools and need to be added to PAN or transferred from a different school.
Students who are not included in the January 6, 2022 extracted student data file must be added and registered for the Reassessment test by the DTC or STC.
Not all K-2 students will receive a Pre-ID label. Those who don't receive a label and for those whose labels are incorrect, the Student Data Demographic Grid on the back cover of the students' test books must be completed by the DTC and STCs prior to the students testing.
AZELLA Test Administration Calendars Schools Year 2021-2022
