CELDT Proficiency Levels and Scoring Flashcards

How many proficiency levels does the CELDT use to classify students' English ability?

Answer: 5

The CELDT uses five proficiency levels: Beginning, Early Intermediate, Intermediate, Early Advanced, and Advanced.

Which proficiency level is the lowest on the CELDT scale?

Answer: Beginning

Beginning is the lowest of the five CELDT proficiency levels, representing students with very limited English ability.

A student at the Early Intermediate CELDT level can typically do which of the following?

Answer: Understand simple conversational English with contextual support

Early Intermediate students can understand and produce simple conversational English, often relying on context and support.

Which CELDT proficiency level is associated with being considered fully English proficient for reclassification purposes?

Answer: Advanced

The Advanced level is the highest CELDT level and represents full English proficiency needed for reclassification as FEP.

Which language domains does the CELDT assess across all grade spans?

Answer: Listening, speaking, reading, and writing

The CELDT comprehensively assesses all four language domains—listening, speaking, reading, and writing—across all grade spans.

At which CELDT proficiency level can a student typically produce connected narrative speech, though with noticeable grammatical errors?

Answer: Intermediate

Intermediate students can produce connected discourse and narrative with some errors in grammar and pronunciation.

Which description BEST fits a student at the Early Advanced CELDT proficiency level?

Answer: Produces complex, varied sentences with occasional errors

Early Advanced students can produce complex, varied sentences with only occasional errors, approaching but not yet at full proficiency.