Hazrat-e Masoumeh University
Language and ideology in newspaper headlines on Iran’s nuclear program

Mahmood Safari

Volume 1, Issue 2 , June 2018, , Pages 147-163

Abstract
  This study is a critical discourse analysis of some western and Iranian newspaper headlines related to Iran’s nuclear program. Newspaper headlines serve as precursors to news reports and reveal the social, cultural, and political representations disseminated in a community at any time. Thus, comparing ...  Read More

A Bias Guideline Preempts Experimental DIF Detection

Mahmood Safari

Volume 1, Issue 1 , December 2017, , Pages 147-172

Abstract
  The present article reports on a judgmental analysis of the items in the English subtest of Iranian University Entrance Exam (2009) investigating possible biased items. Plenty of statistical techniques, such as Logistic Regression, Mantel-Haenszel method, and IRT approaches, are developed to detect differential ...  Read More