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Quarter 4 – Module 2
Technical and Operational Definition

Name of Learner: ___________________________

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 What I Need To Know
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This module was made to help learners understand how terms are defined. This will help
them to note the validity, accuracy, relevance, and adequacy accorded to what has been
provided in defining terms. The ways to define terms serve as the standard level on how skilled
students may become in sentence construction when defining terms. Learning activities are
prepared according to the level of learners in order to make it more meaningful.
At the end of this module, you are expected to:

Learning Competency: Give technical and operational definition

(EN10V-IIa-13.9)

• Identify technical and operational definition; and

• Define words or terms using technical and operational definition

What I Know

Activity 1 Pretest
Directions. Read the following questions below. Encircle only the letter of your answer.

1. The specific meaning of a word or phrase given to it by the group of people who use the
word in their context is _______________.
A. Technical Definition C. Expanded Definition
B. Operational Definition D. Extended Definition

2. What definition is used that includes examples of terms and words found in the dictionary?
A. Technical Definition C. Expanded Definition
B. Operational Definition D. Extended Definition

3. The following choices are examples of technical definition EXCEPT:

A. Results - presents the information gathered through the research.
B. Evidence – outward signs or proofs to ascertain the truth of the matter.
C. Research – establishes facts and new findings through a systematic investigation.
D. Public Policy – new laws passed, institutional reform, change in corporate practice
etc.

4. “Public Deliberation – hearings, speeches, press statements and other forms

of deliberations among policy – makers or opinion.”

The definition of term above is an example of __________________.

A. Expanded Definition C. Operational Definition
B. Extended Definition D. Technical Definition

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5. Which of the following statements DOES NOT belong to the group of operational
definitions?
A. Employee Satisfaction – number of days per month that the employee shows up to
work on time.
B. Possession – time taken to honk the horn at the car ahead after a stop light turns
green.
C. Items – number of people correctly solving a group performance task.
D. Questionnaire – a set of questions used to gather information in a survey.

What’s In
Activity 2. Make a Match
Directions: Get to know some research terms. Match the definitions in the premises
(A) with the corresponding section names listed in column (B). Write only the letter
of your answer on the blank before the number.
A B

____1. presents background information, scope, A. Methodology

and focus of the research paper. B. Literature Review
____2. provides a review of what others C. Introduction
have written or researched on D. Reference
concerning the topic. E. Discussion
____3. explains how the research was conducted F. Conclusion
____4. presents the information gathered through G. Results
the research H. Research
____5. evaluates the results of the study I. Abstract
or research J. Appendix
____6. provides the summary of the research K. Dictionary
____7. lists all the sources used in the research
____8. contains other related information such as
graphs, charts, tables, and lists
____9. summarizes all sections and helps readers
decide whether or not to read the entire report
____10. a systematic investigation to contribute to an
existing body of knowledge.

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 What’s New

Activity 3
A. Directions: Read the following texts clearly. Then, answer the questions that follow.
1. The government has passed Republic Act 9710 (Magna Carta for Women) to
affirm the role of women in nation building and to ensure the substantive
equality of women.

What is defined in this sentence? How is it defined?

___________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________.

2. “Discrimination Against Women” refers to any gender-based distinction,

exclusion, or restriction which has the effect or purpose of impairing or
nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women, irrespective of
their marital status, or a basis of equality of men and women of human rights
and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil, or
any other field.
How is discrimination against women defined?
___________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________.

3. As defined in Republic Act 7610, child abuse refers to the maltreatment,

whether habitual or not, of the child which includes any of the following:

(1) Psychological and physical abuse, neglect, cruelty, sexual abuse, and
emotional maltreatment.
(2) Any act by deeds or words which debases, degrades, or demeans the
intrinsic worth and dignity of a child as human being;
(3) Unreasonable deprivation of his basic needs for survival, such as food and
shelter; or
(4) Failure to immediately give medical treatment to an injured child resulting
in serious impairment of his growth and development or in his permanent
incapacity or death.
What is defined in this item? How is it defined?
___________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________.

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 B. Directions: Fill in the blanks by completing the sentences with your own
definition of the word or group of words.
1. An article is valid when it
______________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
2. Reliability of the article’s content means
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
3. We can say that what we read is accurate when
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________

4. Adequate information calls for

______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________

What Is It

A term definition is a word or expression that has a precise meaning in some uses
or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or subject. Defining terms is one way of
helping to resolve problems of ambiguity and there are many types of definitions.

In this part of the module, you will be clarified on the context on how technical
and operational definitions are defined and used.

Technical definition is having special and usually practical knowledge

especially of a mechanical or scientific subject. Technical definition mostly
refers to the aspect of explaining or describing any technical terms or
terminologies.

Examples include the terms and definitions of the words found in dictionary.

Technical definition could be used in expanding the vocabulary since most

of these terms are explained in the exact manner.

Examples:

1. Email message is one platform that connects people by using any form of
gadget.
2. Interviewing is a conversational practice where knowledge is produced through
the interaction between an interviewer and interviewee.
3. Statistics is the quantity that is computed from a sample.
4. Evidence is an outward sign of proofs to ascertain the truth of a matter.
5. Generalization is a general statement, law, principle, or proportion.
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 Operational definition is the specific meaning of a word or phrase given to it by the
group of people who use the word in their specific context.

On the other hand, operational definition is more on the application of the word. In
other words, it is used in defining the terms of a process.

An example of operational definition of the term weight of an object, operationalized to a

degree, would be the following:
“Weight is the number that appears when that object is placed on a weighing scale.”
Examples:

1. Employee satisfaction – number of days per month that the employee shows up to
work on time.
2. Possession – time taken to honk the horn at the car ahead after a stop light turn green.
3. Items – number of people correctly solving a group performance-task.
4. Public policy – new laws passed, institutional reform, change in corporate practice,
etc.
5. Social media traction – volume of people endorsing, commenting on, or sharing
content on social media.
6. Public deliberation – hearings, speeches, press statements, and other forms of
deliberated among policy-makers or opinion.

What’s More

Activity 4
A. Directions: This time, give the operational or technical definitions of the
following concepts. You may use the internet or your books as your
reference. Just be sure to cite where you got them.

Words to be Operational Definition Technical Definition Source

defined

Love

Population

Global warming

Government
revenues

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 B. Directions. Read the sentences and categorize each according to the correct
types of definitions. Write your answers on the corresponding column
inside the box.

• Conflict happens in the family, among friends, in the classroom, or around the corporate
conference table.
• An argumentative essay attempts to be highly persuasive and logical.
• An automobile is a car or truck that gets you around from place to place and carries cargo
or passengers, and makes it easier to live in the city or countryside.
• Computers are devices or machines used in performing, assessing, evaluation, and
following commands set by the users.
• A telephone is a device used to talk to people who are far away.
• Twitter is a social media platform that limits messages to 140 characters.
• Electric current refers to the force between two infinite parallel conductors, separated by a
specified distance.

Technical Definition Operational Definition

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 What I Have Learned

Activity 5 Tell Me What You Know

Directions. Answer the following questions based on your understanding of the
lesson.
1. What is the difference between technical and operational definitions?

_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________.

2. What is the significance of learning what technical and operational definitions

are in developing your vocabulary?
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________.

What I Can Do

Activity 6
Directions: Give the technical and operational definition of each word.
Be guided with the criteria given below.
1. Computer
Technical: ________________________________________

2. Cellphone
Operational: ______________________________________

3. Book
Technical: ________________________________________
Operational: ______________________________________

4. Jacket
Operational: ______________________________________

5. Winter
Technical: ________________________________________
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 Assessment

Directions. Read the following questions carefully. Write only the letter of your answer on
the blank before the number.
______1. What type of definition given below shows specific meaning of a word or phrase used
in defining the terms of a process?
A. Operational Definition C. Expanded Definition
B. Technical Definition D. Extended Definition

______2. The statement below is an example of ______________.

Statistics – is the quantity that is computed from a sample.

A. Operational Definition C. Expanded Definition

B. Technical Definition D. Extended Definition
______3. Which of the following statements below is an example of operational definition?
A. Employee satisfaction is the number of days per month that the employee shows up
to work on time.
B. Research establishes facts and new findings through a systematic investigation.
C. Generalization is a general statement, law, principle or proportion.
D. Reference list, lists all the sources used in the research.
______4. What do you call this type of definition that pertains to the weight of an object?
A. Operational Definition C. Expanded Definition
B. Technical Definition D. Extended Definition
______5. Operational definition is the specific meaning of a word or phrase given to it by the
group of people who use the word in their specific _____________.

A. Context C. Concept
B. Progress D. Process
______6. Which of the following statements DOES NOT belong to the group of technical
definition?
A. A telephone is a device used to talk to people who are far away.
B. Twitter is a social media platform that limits messages to 140 characters.
C. Electric current refers to the force between two infinite parallel conductress,
separated by a specified distance.
D. Computers are devices or machines used in performing, assessing, evaluation, and
following commands set by the users.
______7. This term is a word or expression that has a precise meaning in some uses or is peculiar
to science, art, profession, or subject.
A. Method C. Term
B. Ways D. Definition
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______8. Which of the following statements below categorizes operational definition?
A. Stress is a force that strains and deforms a body.
B. A paper micrometer is a small measuring instrument used to measure the thickness
of a piece of paper.
C. Mercury is a metal that is liquid at room temperature.
D. Rain is drops of water falling from a cloud in the sky.

______9. Which of the following statements below categorizes technical definition?

A. Fuel is a substance that is burnt to produce energy.
B. Organism is any object that grows and reproduces (has babies).
C. In driving, a stall Is an operating condition in which a sudden and unexpected loss
of power occurs.
D. A paper micrometer is a small measuring instrument used to measure the thickness
of piece of paper.

______10. Defining terms is one way of helping to resolve problems of _______.

A. Ambiguity C. Clarity
B. Difficulty D. Faculty

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 Additional Activity
(Optional)

A. Directions: In this part, your task is to come up with operational definition for emotions,
behaviors, and states of being. For each of the following statements, provide an operational
definition for the underlined words.

1. The experimenter wants to figure out how recreational drugs affect a person’s sense of humor.
Answer: _____________________________________________________________________

2. The teacher wants to find a way to help make Billy act more friendly toward the other
children.

Answer: _____________________________________________________________________

3. A psychologist wants to know if his new form of psychotherapy will make people less
depressed.

Answer: _____________________________________________________________________

4. I have to find a way to study more efficiently.

Answer: _____________________________________________________________________

5. Does this drug help people overcome their tiredness?

Answer: ______________________________________________________________________
6. Boys show more affection towards their father than towards their mother.

Answer: _____________________________________________________________________

7. Sleep deprivation causes a person to become more irritable.

Answer: _____________________________________________________________________

8. College athletes are smart.

Answer: _____________________________________________________________________

9. The school spirit is at an all-time low.

Answer: _____________________________________________________________________

10. Kids who spend many hours playing violent video games tend to be more aggressive.

Answer: _____________________________________________________________________

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B. Technical Definition

B. Directions: This time, you will have to think of five (5) simple everyday
items and define each using technical definition. An example is provided for you.

Example: Lipstick is a kind of cosmetic that enhances aesthetic beauty of women.

1.____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
2.____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
3.____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
4.____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
5.____________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

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What I Know What’s In What’s New
Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3A & 2B
1. B 1. C 6. F • Terms are defined
2. A 2. B 7. D showing validity,
3. D 3. A 8. J accuracy, reliability
4. C 4. G 9. I and accuracy.
5. D 5. E 10. H
What’s More What I Have Learned Assessment
Activity 4A Activity 5 1. A 6. C
• Defining terms Answers may vary. 2. B 7. D
using books or 3. A 8. A
internet as reference What I Can Do 4. B 9. D
(Note: Answers may Activity 6 5. A 10. A
vary.) Answers may vary.
Activity 4B Additional Activity
1. O 4. T Answers may vary.
2. O 5. T
3. O 6. T
7. O
ANSWER KEY
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Almonte, Liza R., Flandez, Lerma L., Hermosa, Angelina Lourdes, Nedia Lagustan, Liberty A.
Mangaluz, Elenita R. Miranda, Paul Anthony B. Mendoza, Lito A. Palomar, Grace B. Annette
Barradas-Soriano, and Karen B. Villanueva, Celebrating Diversity through World Literature.
Pasig City: Rex Book Store, Inc. 2015, 405 466-467, 503,505- 507.

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2021, https://www.slideshare.net/safwanb/technical-defintions.

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Writers: Gemma P. Ladjagais, Basilan National High School
Manny P. Tumalon, Isabela City National High School
Editor:
Language Editor:
Proofreader: Violeta M. Sta. Elena, EPS
Illustrators:
Layout Artist: Joyce Ethel L. Sienes
Management Team:

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Maria Laarni T. Villanueva, Ed. D., CESE
ASDS-Isabela City
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Elsa A. Usman, LR Supervisor
Helen De Leon, EPS-English, Module Coordinator

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 Region IX: Zamboanga Peninsula Hymn – Our Eden Land
Here the trees and flowers bloom Gallant men And Ladies fair
Here the breezes gently Blow, Linger with love and care
Here the birds sing Merrily, Golden beams of sunrise and sunset
The liberty forever Stays, Are visions you’ll never forget
Oh! That’s Region IX
Here the Badjaos roam the seas Hardworking people Abound,
Here the Samals live in peace Every valleys and Dale
Here the Tausogs thrive so free Zamboangueños, Tagalogs, Bicolanos,
With the Yakans in unity
My Final Farewell
Farewell, dear Fatherland, clime of the sun caress'd
Pearl of the Orient seas, our Eden lost!,
Gladly now I go to give thee this faded life's best,
And were it brighter, fresher, or more blest
Still would I give it thee, nor count the cost.
On the field of battle, 'mid the frenzy of fight,
Others have given their lives, without doubt or heed;
The place matters not-cypress or laurel or lily white,
Scaffold or open plain, combat or martyrdom's plight,
T is ever the same, to serve our home and country's need.
I die just when I see the dawn break,
Through the gloom of night, to herald the day;
And if color is lacking my blood thou shalt take,
Pour'd out at need for thy dear sake
To dye with its crimson the waking ray.
My dreams, when life first opened to me,
My dreams, when the hopes of youth beat high,
Were to see thy lov'd face, O gem of the Orient sea
From gloom and grief, from care and sorrow free;
No blush on thy brow, no tear in thine eye.
Dream of my life, my living and burning desire,
All hail ! cries the soul that is now to take flight;
All hail ! And sweet it is for thee to expire ;
To die for thy sake, that thou mayst aspire;
And sleep in thy bosom eternity's long night.
If over my grave some day thou seest grow,
In the grassy sod, a humble flower,
Draw it to thy lips and kiss my soul so,
While I may feel on my brow in the cold tomb below
The touch of thy tenderness, thy breath's warm power.
Let the moon beam over me soft and serene,
Let the dawn shed over me its radiant flashes,
Let the wind with sad lament over me keen ;
And if on my cross a bird should be seen,
Let it trill there its hymn of peace to my ashes.
I Am a Filipino, by Carlos P. Romulo
I am a Filipino–inheritor of a glorious past, hostage to the uncertain
future. As such I must prove equal to a two-fold task–the task of
meeting my responsibility to the past, and the task of performing my
obligation to the future.
I sprung from a hardy race, child many generations removed of
ancient Malayan pioneers. Across the centuries the memory comes
rushing back to me: of brown-skinned men putting out to sea in
ships that were as frail as their hearts were stout. Over the sea I see
them come, borne upon the billowing wave and the whistling wind,
carried upon the mighty swell of hope–hope in the free abundance of
new land that was to be their home and their children’s forever.
I am a Filipino. In my blood runs the immortal seed of heroes–seed
that flowered down the centuries in deeds of courage and defiance.
In my veins yet pulses the same hot blood that sent Lapulapu to
battle against the first invader of this land, that nerved Lakandula in
the combat against the alien foe, that drove Diego Silang and
Dagohoy into rebellion against the foreign oppressor.
The seed I bear within me is an immortal seed. It is the mark of my
manhood, the symbol of dignity as a human being. Like the seeds 15
that were once buried in the tomb of Tutankhamen many thousand
years ago, it shall grow and flower and bear fruit again. It is the
insignia of my race, and my generation is but a stage in the
unending search of my people for freedom and happiness.
Cebuanos, Ilocanos, Subanons, Boholanos, Ilongos,
All of them are proud and true
Region IX our Eden Land
Region IX
Our..
Eden...
Land...
Let the sun draw the vapors up to the sky,
And heavenward in purity bear my tardy protest
Let some kind soul o 'er my untimely fate sigh,
And in the still evening a prayer be lifted on high
From thee, 0 my country, that in God I may rest.
Pray for all those that hapless have died,
For all who have suffered the unmeasur'd pain;
For our mothers that bitterly their woes have cried,
For widows and orphans, for captives by torture tried
And then for thyself that redemption thou mayst gain
And whe n the d ark nig ht wr ap s the gr ave y ar d a r ound
With only the d e ad in the ir v ig il to s e e
B re ak not m y re p os e or the m ys tery p r of ound
And pe rc hanc e thou m ays t he ar a s ad hym n re s ound
' T is I, O my c ountry, r aising a s ong unto the e .
And ev e n my g rav e is r em em be re d no m ore
Unm ark 'd by ne ve r a c r os s nor a stone
Le t the plow s we ep thr oug h it, the sp ade tur n it o' er
That m y as hes m ay c arp e t e ar thly f loor,
B ef ore into nothing nes s at las t the y are b lown.
The n will ob liv ion br ing to me no c ar e
As ove r thy v ale s and p lains I s we e p;
Thr ob b ing and c le anse d in thy s p ace and air
With c olor and lig ht, with s ong and lame nt I f are ,
E v er re p e ating the f aith that I k ee p .
M y F athe rland ad or' d, that s ad ne ss to my sor r ow le nd s
B e lov ed F ilip inas, he ar now m y las t g ood -b y!
I g ive the e all: p are nts and k indr ed and f r iend s
F or I g o wher e no s lav e be f or e the op pr es s or b e nds ,
Whe r e f aith c an ne ve r kill, and God r e ig ns e ' er on hig h!
F are well to y ou all, f r om m y s oul tor n away,
F rie nds of m y c hild hood in the home disp oss e ss ed !
Giv e thanks that I re s t fr om the we ar is om e d ay !
F are well to the e, too, s we e t f rie nd that lig hte ne d m y way;
B e lov ed cre ature s all, f are well! In d e ath ther e is re s t!
I am a Filipino, child of the marriage of the East and the West. The
East, with its languor and mysticism, its passivity and endurance,
was my mother, and my sire was the West that came thundering
across the seas with the Cross and Sword and the Machine. I am of
the East, an eager participant in its spirit, and in its struggles for
liberation from the imperialist yoke. But I also know that the East
must awake from its centuried sleep, shake off the lethargy that has
bound his limbs, and start moving where destiny awaits.
I am a Filipino, and this is my inheritance. What pledge shall I give
that I may prove worthy of my inheritance? I shall give the pledge that
has come ringing down the corridors of the centuries, and it shall be
compounded of the joyous cries of my Malayan forebears when first
they saw the contours of this land loom before their eyes, of the battle
cries that have resounded in every field of combat from Mactan to
Tirad Pass, of the voices of my people when they sing:
“I am a Filipino born to freedom, and I shall not rest until freedom
shall have been added unto my inheritance—for myself and my
children and my children’s children—forever.”