Assessment/Accountability
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System

List of School Staff Qualified to Administer the MELA-O to English Language Learner Students (ELL)

Massachusetts English Language Assessment-Oral (MELA-O) is the state-mandated annual assessment of listening and speaking skills in English for LEP students in grades K-12. It is one required component of the state's Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment (MEPA) and may also be used, at local discretion, as a diagnostic tool for assessing a student's progress in learning to speak and understand English.

The MELA-O is administered by observing students performing academic and social tasks in the classroom, and is scored in five areas, using the MELA-O Scoring Matrix. Only a Qualified MELA-O Administrator (QMA) or a Qualified MELA-O Trainer (QMT) may conduct the MELA-O for the purpose of reporting results to the state for MEPA.

QMTs and QMAs were required to be retrained and requalified by January 31, 2010 in order to conduct the MELA-O and to report scores for MEPA. For more information, please refer to the Commissioner's Memo regarding MELA-O Requalification.

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List of School Staff Qualified to Administer the MELA-O to English Language Learner Students (ELL) -- updated February 7, 2012