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1- Assistant Professor of Farsi Language Education, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University , z_h_abbasi@yahoo.com
2- Doctoral student teaching Persian language to foreigners at Allameh Tabatabai Universityteaching Persian language to foreigners at Allameh Tabatabai University
2- Doctoral student teaching Persian language to foreigners at Allameh Tabatabai Universityteaching Persian language to foreigners at Allameh Tabatabai University
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One of the challenges and important dimensions of assessment and evaluation in language teaching is test fairness, a broad concept that includes several factors and components. In the standards of educational and psychological assessment, test fairness means that there is no bias and advocacy and the same treatment with all subjects regardless of their race, religion, gender and age. The purpose of this study was to investigate the perception and attitude of Persian language instructors to non-Persian speakers about the definition of the concept of test fairness, essential components for a fair test and the general concept of test fairness. This research has been done by field and combined methods (quantitative and qualitative). 58 Persian language instructors for non-Persian speakers were selected by available sampling and participated as a statistical sample from the Persian language instructor’s community. Homayouni standard questionnaire (2015) was used to collect data, and SPSS version 23 were used for analysis of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. In the qualitative part of the research, 9 semi-structured interviews were conducted with the instructors and the opinions of the instructors were extracted based on the content analysis of Krippendorff (2004). The analysis of descriptive statistics findings showed that experienced instructors have a better and deeper understanding of the general concept of test fairness, the definition of the concept of test fairness and the components necessary to conduct
Keywords: : Assessment and Evaluation, Test fairness, Language Testing, Equity, Persian language teaching
Article Type: مقالات علمی پژوهشی |
Subject:
language teaching
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