New for the Spring 2025 training modules is the Fundamentals course. This course is required to be completed by all AZELLA DTCs, STCs, and Test Administrators. ADE's Assessments listened to your feedback and have removed slides from the grade-level modules that were repetitive and created the Fundamentals course. In doing so, the grade-level modules are shorter in length.
Spring 2025 AZELLA Native Speaker Field Test (NSFT)
During the Spring 2025 AZELLA Reassessment test window, selected schools will also be administering a complete Spring 2025 AZELLA test to pre-selected native English-speaking students.
ADE will determine which districts and schools will participate in the Native Speaker Field Test and notify them that they have native English-speaking students who will participate in the NSFT. The administration of the NSFT is not optional.
Selected native-speaker students will be pre-registered in PAN in a separate test administration called Spring 2025 Native Speaker. DTCs will not need to register any of these students. The NSFT Grades K-3 paper test materials will be automatically shipped to participating districts.
ADE and Pearson will notify participating districts in early December. No additional training will be required for participating districts other than an informational webinar that ADE and Pearson will be conducting in early January for the AZELLA DTCs of selected districts. ADE will provide more information to participating districts as the test window approaches.
Spring 2025 AZELLA Reassessment Paper Test Materials
For districts who complete their K-3 Participation Counts in December, Pearson will ship the same quantity plus a 5% district overage of the paper test materials to the shipping address on file for the Spring Reassessment Test administration. These materials are scheduled to arrive at the shipping address that is in PAN between January 14-20. An employee of the district or charter who has signed the AZELLA Test Security Agreement must be available to sign receipt of the shipments. The paper test materials and the Pre-ID Labels will be shipped separately and will arrive during the same week. DTCs will have an opportunity to order additional materials after the materials received have been inventoried. If the Reassessment materials have NOT been delivered by Monday, January 20, DTCs should contact ADE via email at
AZELLA@azed.gov. LEAs must wait until January 20 before contacting ADE.
Districts and charters must KEEP the boxes in which the testing materials arrive because the same boxes need to be used to return the materials at the end of the test window.
Which Students Require the Spring 2025 AZELLA Reassessment Test?
All students with an EL need and a current AZELLA record are required to participate in the Spring Reassessment Test. This includes students enrolled in EL services (SEI, Bilingual waiver, 50-50 Dual Language Instruction, and Parent Withdrawn) as well as those who have not been enrolled in any EL services for the school year. These students appear on the EL73 - EL Student Need Report as EL Groups 1, 2, and 4. It is imperative that the EL73 Report is downloaded and reviewed frequently before and throughout the Reassessment Test window.
AZELLA for Dual Label Students (EL and SPED)
All students, regardless of disability, who have a Home Language Survey that includes a language other than English and/or ASL require an English Language Proficiency (ELP) test. There are no provisions, in either state or federal law, which would allow the exemption of ELP testing for students who are enrolled in the Special Education program and require an ELP test.
The AZELLA DTC must contact the AZELLA Team at ADE about any student who requires an accommodated version of the Spring AZELLA Reassessment Test, additional accommodations, or who has a documented disability (for example: deafness or blindness) that precludes assessment in one or more domains of AZELLA
prior to administering the AZELLA test by submitting the
AZELLA Additional Accommodations Request Form 2024-2025.
DTCs must wait for ADE's response to the request and further directions from the AZELLA Team prior to administering the AZELLA. Each request form may take up to 4 weeks to process as communication between ADE and the district transpires. The deadline to submit AZELLA Additional Accommodations requests will be December 13, 2024. The only exception to this is transfer students.
Accommodated Forms for Grades KG-12
- AZELLA Braille (Reassessment only)
- AZELLA Special Paper Version (SPV) for ONLINE test administrations (Grades 2-12)
- AZELLA Large Print (LP) for Paper AZELLA test administrations (Grades KG-3).
- Grades 2-12 AZELLA ASL Version (ASL videos for directions and accessibility elements)
Alt ELPA students who are eligible for Alternate Assessments qualify for the Alt ELPA and do not need the Additional Accommodations Request form submitted. For Alt ELPA students, AZELLA DTCs are only required to ensure that the Alt ELPA students are tested during the Spring 2025 Reassessment test window.
Student Data and School Enrollment for the Spring Reassessment Pre-Registration (all grades) and K-3 Pre-ID Labels
January 2, 2025
The AZELLA DTC must ensure that school enrollments and EL program services have been synchronized from the School Information System (SIS) to AzEDS by January 2, 2025, and correct any Placement Test records that are in the AZELLA Corrections application by January 2. This data needs to be complete because ADE will be extracting all Kindergarten through Grade 12 EL student data on January 3 to send to Pearson for pre-registering these students for the Spring Reassessment Test and printing K-3 Pre-ID Labels.
DTCs should mark their calendar for January 3 and January 17, 2025, as a reminder to print the EL73 - EL Student Need Reports. These reports need to be compared to identify which students have not been registered for the Reassessment test in the 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 3 extracted student data file will require the DTC 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 student's paper test books must be completed by the DTC and STCs prior to the students testing.
