You are interested in looking at the relationship between education and well-being. You decide that you will use the number of years of schooling completed as the way you will measure level of education. This step in the scientific method is called:.
a. operationalizing the concept.
b. establishing the validity of your measure.
c. determining if your measure is reliable.
d. standardizing your measure.

operationalizing the concept.

Explanation:

Operationalizing the concept in research methodology means researchers  start operation to prove and work on  concept and define how concept will be measured, observed and proceed. It is quantitative part of research in which it defines how variable will be measure , and date will be collect. It is also know as empirical research where variables are converted from concept into numbers.

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