Rasch Analysis: An Introduction to Objective Measurement

Introduction to Many-Facet Rasch Measurement - Preamble

An introduction to multidimensional measurement using Rasch models.

The act of constructing a measure requires a number of important assumptions. Principle among these assumptions is that the construct is unidimensional. In practice there are many instances when the assumption of unidimensionality does not hold, and where the application of a multidimensional measurement model is both technically appropriate and substantively advantageous. In this paper we illu...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

An Introduction to Speech Sciences (Acoustic Analysis of Speech)

Speech sciences deal with the acoustical characteristics of speech by means of sophisticated soft wares as well as hard wares. Although, a speech science is a well known science in the developed countries, especially the western societies, however, it has been remained almost unknown in Iran, though, in recent years a group of scholars have been involved in this branch of science. The applicati...

ترجمه و تحقیق کتاب an introduction to the history of mysticism

پایان نامه ی ارائه شده ترجمه ی کتاب «an introduction to the history of mysticism» نوشته ی مارگارت اسمیت که وی پژوهشگر، خاورشناس و محقق برجسته ی تصوف و عرفان می باشد. موضوع اساسی و مهم این کتاب عرفان در ادیان مختلف است. نویسنده در ابتدا این کلمه را ریشه یابی کرده و سپس تعریفی از آن ارائه داده و آن را در ادیان مختلف مورد بحث قرار داده است و در هر فصل کتاب به معرفی عرفای آن دین یا عصر خاصی پرداخته...