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A competent view of “competence”

Communication Education, 1984
Preoccupation with definition and measurement of competence and skill is derived from a social science base. Such concern is an abstraction and not necessarily directed to improvement of pedagogical technology. The enterprise may be useful, but it would be more useful to re‐define the locus of interest in the field of speech communication to techniques
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Beyond dichotomies: Competence viewed as a continuum

, 2015
In this paper, the state of research on the assessment of competencies in higher education is reviewed. Fundamental conceptual and methodological issues are clarified by showing that current controversies are built on misleading dichotomies.
Sigrid Blömeke, J. Gustafsson, R. Shavelson   +2 more
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How Competent are Competencies?

Human Service Organizations Management, Leadership & Governance, 2014
Competencies have become ubiquitous in not only human services administration but also in related contexts.
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Competences of Managers, Competences of Leaders

2003
The nature of management and managers and of leaders and leadership is highly problematic: there is no agreed view on what managers or leaders should do and what they need to do it. And there never can be, since such definitions arise not from organizational or technical requirements (which are themselves the product of managers’ theories of ...
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Competent students, competent teachers?

International Journal of Educational Research, 2002
Abstract In an attempt to investigate East Asian teachers’ competence in mathematics, a small-scale exploratory study conducted in Hong Kong and Korea replicating Ma's study (Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics, Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, 1999) is reported in this chapter.
Leung, F, Park, K
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Communicative Competence

This paper discusses the development of the term ‘communicative competence’. It shows that there is a lack of consensus for what does the term mean? Linguistically, it refers to the speaker’s ability to use the appropriate language in the right context ...
Bruno G. Bara
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The Competency of Definitions of Competency

1991
Each of the essays in this volume contributes to the literature on definitions and determinations of patient competency, and all demonstrate that there are essential and inherent interconnections among philosophical distinctions, patterns of ethical reasoning, legal traditions, and clinical decision-making.
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Professional Competence of Teachers: Effects on Instructional Quality and Student Development

, 2013
This study investigates teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge, professional beliefs, work-related motivation, and self-regulation as aspects of their professional competence.
Mareike Kunter, U. Klusmann, J. Baumert, Dirk Richter, Thamar Voss, A. Hachfeld   +5 more
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Competency

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1983
This article examines some of the important criteria for determining both criminal and civil aspects of a variety of competency issues including synthetic sanity, competency to be executed, amnesia, indices of incompetency, and checklists for psychiatrists.
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Competence, Teacher Competence and Professional Error Competence: An Introduction

2017
In the context of the impact teachers have on students’ learning (teachers matter), there is an increasing interest in teachers’ competences, which are seen as an amalgam of professional knowledge, beliefs, motivational orientation, and self-regulation. Following Shulman, professional knowledge in turn comprises content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge
Wuttke, Eveline, Seifried, Jürgen
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