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CELLA (Comprehensive English Language Learning Assessment)

Florida uses the Comprehensive English Language Learning Assessment (CELLA) as a tool to measure the progress of English Language Learners (ELLs) proficiency in English; thus, ensuring the skills needed in school to achieve at high levels, academically.

CELLA is a four-skill language proficiency assessment that 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 the 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 English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) programs.
• Diagnostically useful information about students’ strengths and weaknesses in English (with as much specificity as possible within the limitations of a large-scale standardized test.)

For additional languages visit the Florida Department of Education CELLA Website

www.fldoe.org/aala/cella.asp

For more information, contact Vicky Saldala, ESOL Director at (754) 321-2953.

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