An educational psychologist investigates the effect of 'academic motivation' on student success. To conduct their study, they decide to measure 'academic motivation' by recording the number of hours a student spends logged into the university's online learning portal per week, and 'student success' by their final module mark out of 100.
Which research process is illustrated by the psychologist's method of defining these variables?
Standardisation
Triangulation
Operationalisation
Conceptualisation
644 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Research methods and techniques. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.