In this organizational perspective, work engagement is operationalized by three correlated constructs: vigour, dedication and absorption.
These categories of external and internal professionalization will be operationalized by three characteristic items each that yield information on teachers' professional development activities and provide information on teachers' principles with regard to learning to use ICT respectively, over the preceding 2 years.
Each of these four concepts is operationalized by seven word-pairs on a 7-point semantic-differential scale (Hassenzahl, Burmester, & Koller, 2003), for instance "motivating vs. discouraging" as a facet of appeal.
Community socioeconomic disadvantage was operationalized by combining four factors: place of residence (rural/urban), and the proportion of illiteracy, unemployment and poverty (estimated asset index < 20% poorest quintile).
The outputs or learning activities, operationalized by the five core program components listed in Figure 2, are evaluated, along with students' ratings of the perceived usefulness of these learning activities and other TEAM-Science offerings (e.g., monthly professional development seminars).
Return to work is operationalized by items representing two dimensions of survivors' employment situation: i) date and ii) extent of return to work (same employment as before experiencing an ARDS, limitations due to ARDS-related disabilities, incapable of working).
This question is operationalized by means of three hypotheses which relate to the previously mentioned bottom-up and top-down processes that underlie successful speech understanding.
On basis of above considerations, the categorization scheme for the interpretation network analysis was operationalized by creating thesauri covering three analytical perspectives: (1) the social system, (2) the energy system, and (3) strong sustainability.
The model suggests that collective action can be analyzed in terms of four dimensions operationalized by 10 indicators.
To estimate decisional balance, we utilized the Sense of Control metric operationalized by Lachman and Weaver, which contains two dimensions: personal mastery and perceived constraints (Lachman and Weaver, 1998).
