"become more competent" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to convey that someone has improved their skills or abilities. For example: "After years of study, she has become more competent at speaking French."
Does a higher MSE lead students to consider pursuing STEM careers and lead them to becoming more informed about the career requirements or do students who have higher knowledge of STEM careers become more competent in mathematics?
"Our pupils become more competent learners.
"Acknowledge them, learn from them, and become more competent because of them".
The Tories won't become more competent nor discover a more fruitful economic strategy by lurching off to the right.
The study assesses whether a workplace-based educational intervention helps professionals who had trained in Motivational Interviewing (MI) become more competent in it.
We parents know this – give 'em freedom (or the illusion of freedom) and they'll grow in confidence and become more competent human beings.
In general, adaptation is a biological process by which an organism becomes more competent to live in a given habitat [8].
Indeed, students' knowledge level is reflected in the tutorial dialogue between the system and the student, e.g. as the learner becomes more competent the level of help from the ITS should drop.
Further, women are viewed as "less likable" as they became "more competent".
Young people with deficits became more competent in all eight domains with medium to large effect sizes, whereas goal behaviors of already competent children and adolescents (total score ≥ 4) changed to a lesser degree with only small effect sizes (see Table 6).
As your group becomes more competent and confident working together, perhaps you can relax and take a more laissez-faire attitude.
