The phrase "defined operationally" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing concepts, terms, or variables that are explained in terms of specific operations or procedures.
Example: "In this study, the term 'success' is defined operationally as achieving a score of 80% or higher on the final exam."
Alternatives: "operationally specified" or "operationally described".
Preference and motivation tests assess motivation, defined operationally as the tendency for an animal to perform a behaviour, but understood as reflecting the animal's desire to do so.
Accuracy, defined operationally as the proportion of variance in pain report explained by stimulus level, ranged from 0.07 to 0.91 with a median of 0.64.
In an attempt to distinguish between boredom and liking, boredom is defined operationally by the change in liking with repeated ingestion, and not defined by the degree of liking itself.
One trend that has yet to be investigated is the effect of seasonality, defined operationally as time point in the season, on acute presentation (symptom reporting and neurocognitive functioning) after SRC.
That subjective experience might even so contribute something to this construction and be part of a psychological concept's reference seems not to have been considered, owing to the further positivist methodological requirement that scientific concepts be defined operationally, by objective procedures, also stated there.
Since cognitive performance is defined operationally, the definition must change as the test changes.
The development of DRGs initially began as an attempt to define operationally the products of a hospital in terms of groups of patients receiving similar sets of outputs or services (such as laboratory tests, x-rays, nursing care).
With respect to the scope of the test, the construct can be defined either operationally (holistically) or theoretically (analytically).
In this context, Pomerantz and Portillo8 proposed that it may also help us to define Gestalts operationally.
It's a subset of recognition again, operationally defined.
DOC is operationally defined as the fraction of organic matter passing through a 0.2 0.7 µm filter26.
