Definition and Selection of Competencies Concepts of Competence

.................................................................................................................. 3 1. The goals of this report on concepts of competence ..................................... 4 2. Definitions of the concepts “competence” and “competencies” .................. 4 (a) General cognitive competencies ................................................................... 6 (b) Specialized cognitive competencies ............................................................. 6 (c) The Competence-Performance model .......................................................... 7 (d) Modifications of the Competence-Performance model ................................. 8 (e) Cognitive competence and motivational action tendencies ........................... 9 (f) Objective and subjective competence concepts .......................................... 10 (g) Action competence ....................................................................................... 10 (h) Key-competencies ....................................................................................... 11 (i) Metacompetencies ........................................................................................ 12 (j) Interim Summary .......................................................................................... 14 3. Difficulties in conceptualizing the competence concept and some preliminary solutions ...................................................................... 15 4. An analysis of some constituents and components of the concept of competence ................................................................................................... 22 4.1 How many theoretical constructs are required to describe and explain nontrivial interindividual differences in performance? ................................... 22 4.2 Competencies and metacompetencies ......................................................... 24 4.3 Competence and competence-related motivation ......................................... 25 5. Suggestions and recommendations ................................................................. 26 (a) Conditional approach: which cognitive competencies are there? .................. 26 (b) Functional approach: Which cognitive competencies does one need to master tasks and task demands ............................................................... 27 References ............................................................................................................... 30 A Glossary of Terms related to Competence ....................................................... 34

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