Asocial research methods class wants to study smoking. first the professor asks how many people in the class are smokers. two students say yes. then she asks how many people have smoked a cigarette in the past week, and ten students say yes. from this the class decided that, for the purposes of its survey, a smoker will be anyone who has had a cigarette in the past week and currently owns a pack of cigarettes. this is a(n):

This is an "operational definition".

The operational definition is a term that is utilized to depict the strategy of an investigation and the exploration factors. When contemplating the operational definition, it is helpful to envision what the examination is estimating and how it will be estimated.  

By having this operational definition, different analysts can reproduce the test. The operational definition tells the reader of the analysis what was regarded a positive or negative outcome, in this manner opening the trial up for replication and development by different therapists.

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this is a technology-dependent lesson that students can guide at their own pace of exploration and learning. students share what they learn through the use of twitter (or alternative classroom sharing medium like todaysmeet). the use of a social sharing platform like twitter gives students a place for sharing with a wider audience, for more effective means of communication with each other, for incorporating viewpoints from all students in the classroom, and a means to reference thinking and learning by the use of a hashtag at a later time. students will understand the role the allied air forces played in the normandy invasion. teachers can use this as a stand-alone lesson or offer more structure by guiding students through each source, one by one. teachers may learn more about the eighth air force by accessing the abmc’s strategic bombing campaign interactive.

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