California Code of Regulations › Title 5 - Education › Division 1 - California Department of Education › Chapter 11 - Special Programs › Subchapter 7.6 - English Language Proficiency Assessments for California (Elpac) › Article 1 - General › Section 11518 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions apply to the ELPAC:
(a) "Accommodations" means resources
					 documented in a pupil's individualized education program (IEP) or Section 504
					 Plan that an eligible pupil regularly uses in the classroom for instruction
					 and/or assessment(s) and that are 1) either utilized in the assessment
					 environment or 2) consist of changes in procedures or materials that increase
					 equitable access to the assessment. Accommodations may not fundamentally alter
					 the comparability of test scores.
(b) "Administration" means an eligible
					 pupil's attempt to take any part of the ELPAC initial or summative assessment.
					 Administration, with the exception of the Alternate ELPAC, may be conducted
					 through in-person or remote test sessions.
(c) "Alternate assessment" or "Alternate
					 ELPAC," when operational, is an alternate means, identified in the IEPs for
					 eligible pupils with the most significant cognitive disabilities, to measure
					 English language proficiency.
(d)
					 "Annual summative assessment window" begins on February 1 and ends on May 31 of
					 each school year.
(e) "Assessment
					 management system" means the test operations management system that is a set of
					 web applications that manage the registration of pupils for tests, machine or
					 hand scoring of test items, integration of item scores into an overall test
					 score, and delivery of scores to the data warehouse.
(f) "Assessment technology platform" means
					 the underlying computer systems on which ELPAC applications run. It is
					 comprised of two components, the assessment management system and the test
					 delivery system.
(g) "Data
					 warehouse" means a comprehensive storehouse of test registrations and results
					 and a system to generate reports on, or extracts of, that data.
(h) "Designated interface assistant" is an
					 employee of a local educational agency (LEA), trained as an ELPAC test examiner
					 who is available to assist pupils who need assistance with response entry into
					 the online test delivery system.
(i) "Designated supports" are resources that
					 an eligible pupil regularly uses in the classroom for instruction and/or
					 assessment(s) and that are available for use by any pupil for whom a need has
					 been indicated, prior to assessment administration, by an educator or a team of
					 educators (with parent/guardian and pupil input, as appropriate) or specified
					 in the pupil's IEP or Section 504 Plan.
(j) "Domain" means listening, speaking,
					 reading, or writing, as described in Education Code section
					 60810.
(k) "ELPAC initial assessment criterion"
					 means a performance-level cut score on the initial assessment that is at or
					 above the State Board of Education (SBE)-approved definition of English
					 language proficient.
(l) "ELPAC
					 test examiner" is an employee or contractor of an local educational agency
					 (LEA) or nonpublic school (NPS) who has electronically agreed to an ELPAC Test
					 Security Affidavit, who is proficient in English and has complete command of
					 pronunciation, intonation, and fluency, and who certifies completion of
					 training in the administration of the ELPAC.
(m) "ELPAC trainer" is an employee or
					 contractor of an LEA or NPS responsible for the annual training of ELPAC test
					 examiners.
(n) "Excessive
					 materials" means the difference between the total number of paper tests scored
					 and 90 percent of the paper tests ordered annually by the LEA.
(o) "Grade" means the grade in which a pupil
					 is enrolled at the time of testing, or if enrolled in an ungraded program, the
					 grade to which the LEA assigns the pupil for assessment purposes.
(p) "Initial assessment" means the ELPAC
					 assessment that is locally scored and is used to determine the English language
					 proficiency of eligible pupils, as specified in section 11518(ad) or section
					 11518.20.
(q) "Initial assessment window" begins on
					 July 1 and ends on June 30 of each school year.
(r) "Initial California enrollment" means the
					 first day on which a pupil is in attendance in a California public
					 school.
(s) "Instructional
					 supports" are all supports, including those supports documented in a pupil's
					 IEP or Section 504 Plan, that may be used in daily instruction and for
					 assessment(s), including language and physical supports.
(t) "Local educational agency (LEA)" means an
					 elementary, high school, and unified school district, county office of
					 education, any charter school that for assessment purposes does not elect to be
					 part of the school district or county office of education that granted the
					 charter, and any charter school chartered by the SBE.
(u) "LEA ELPAC coordinator" is an employee of
					 an LEA who is designated by the LEA superintendent to oversee the
					 administration of the ELPAC assessments.
(v) "LEA superintendent" for purposes of
					 these regulations includes an administrator of a charter school that is an LEA
					 as defined by subdivision (t).
(w)
					 "Local scoring (LS) correspondence administrator" is an employee of an LEA who
					 enters pupils' initial assessment scores into the local scoring system and has
					 the authority to generate reports of pupils' aggregate and individual scores at
					 the LEA level.
(x) "LS data entry
					 staff" is an employee of an LEA who enters pupils' initial or summative
					 assessment scores into the local scoring system and has the authority to print
					 individual pupil score reports at the site level.
(y) "Nonpublic schools (NPS)" means
					 nonpublic, nonsectarian schools as described in Education Code section
					 56034.
(z) "Personally identifiable information"
					 includes a pupil's name and/or any other direct personal identifiers, and
					 indirect identifiers, such as the pupil's address and personal characteristics,
					 and other information that makes a pupil's identity traceable through the use
					 of a single or multiple data source(s), including publicly available
					 information.
(aa) "Primary or
					 native language" means the language used by a pupil, as identified in
					 accordance with the survey conducted pursuant to section
					 11518.5(a).
(ab) "Proctor" is an employee or contractor
					 of an LEA or NPS who electronically agrees to an ELPAC Test Security Affidavit
					 and completes training designed to prepare the employee to assist the test
					 examiner in the administration of the ELPAC.
(ac) "Pupil" refers to a student enrolled in
					 a California public school or NPS.
(ad) "Pupil eligible for the initial
					 assessment" is:
(1) a pupil whose primary or
					 native language is a language other than English as determined by the survey
					 conducted pursuant to section
					 11518.5(a),
					 or who is identified for administration of the initial ELPAC assessment
					 pursuant to section
					 11518.20(a);
(2) who has not previously been
					 classified as an English learner (EL) by a California public school; and
(3) who has no record of results
					 from an administration of the California English Language Development Test, or
					 the ELPAC initial or summative assessment.