OPERATIONAL

DEFINITION OF TERMS
LESSON 6
WHAT IS OPERATIONAL?
•in or ready for use
•relatingto the routine functioning
and activities
WHAT IS DEFINITION?
•isa statement of the meaning of a
term (a word, phrase, or other set of
symbols).
OPERATIONAL DEFINITION
•Also known as functional definition
•Definition
of a variable in terms of
the ACTUAL PROCEDURE used by
the researcher to measure or to
manipulate it.
OPERATIONAL DEFINITION
•A statement that shows the
“WHAT YOU DO & WHAT YOU
OBSERVE”
IMPORTANCE OF OPERATIONAL
DEFINITION
•Itdefines procedures precisely so
that the other researchers can
replicate the study.
IMPORTANCE OF OPERATIONAL
DEFINITION
•It
is necessary in research in order for
the researcher and the reader to be
thinking in terms of the same thing.
IMPORTANCE OF OPERATIONAL
DEFINITION
•A researcher should completely grasp
what is the meaning by the words
he/she is using.
•A researcher should be able to
communicate to the readers.
TWO FORMS:
1. Measured Operational Definition
2. Experimental Operational
Definition
1. MEASURED OPERATIONAL
DEFINITION

• States the way the concept is

measured in the investigation
2. EXPERIMENTAL OPERATIONAL
DEFINITION

• the researcher may spell out the

details of the manipulation of a
variable.
REFERENCES:
• https://www.slideshare.net/chting1292/operational-definition
• https://www.slideshare.net/japorto/research-methods-517946
• https://www.slideshare.net/phdserena/operational-definitions-44880256