SOCL 2211 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Operationalization, Operational Definition, Nonprobability Sampling
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Conceptualization the process through which we specify what we mean when we use particular terms in research. Definitions and operationalization: an operational definition specifies precisely how a concept will be measured. Operationalization the development of specific research procedures (operations) that will result in empirical observations representing real world concepts: range of variation, variations between the extremes. The conceptualization and operationalization processes can be seen as the specification of variables and the attributes composing them. Defining variables and attributes: an attribute is a characteristic or quality (ex: female, old, student, a variable is a logical set of attributes. (ex: gender, age) Every variable must have two important qualities: exhaustive, exclusive. Degrees to which a measure relates to some external criterion. (ex: sat"s predicting success in college, passing driving exam predicting success as a driver: construct validity based on logical relationship between variables. (ex: