Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating an Online Placement Test based on Faraz Farsi Educational Collection

Placement test is a test with the purpose of providing information that determines the appropriate level of the learners in an educational course according to their abilities. Due to the rapid development of technology and its application in the field of education, testing has changed from pen and paper-based test to computer-based test. The purpose of this research was to design an online placement test that has the required validity to determine the appropriate level of language learners in educational centers and the web-application under design (for teaching Persian to non-Persian speakers). This test was prepared based on the content of twelve-volume educational collection Faraz Farsi (Mirdehghan Farashah et al., 2023) and for the three sub-skills of vocabulary, grammar, and interaction. "Digiform" was selected among the online test makers for the test implementation due to its superior features, including the ability to display the test taker's image and higher security. In order to determine the reliability, the test was administered to 178 non-Persian language learners. The analysis of the obtained data using Coder and Richardson's formula 20, showed that the reliability of the test was 0.93. In order to determine the content validity of the test, a 10-item questionnaire was prepared and given to 20 teachers (18 female and 2 male) of Faraz Farsi. The teachers held MA degree or were PhD students in Teaching Persian, and have taught at least for five years. The results showed the desired content validity of the test.