By adjusting the difficulty of the time-independent link items, the development of a competency parameter was determined, and the development of competencies was analysed based on differences in the competency values between both assessments (dimensions).
To accommodate the differences in the competency frameworks due to the age of youth to be served, two lists of common core competencies were presented, one that represented all of the frameworks and another that reflected frameworks designed for working with school-age youth.
The hospital in which the graduates were working made a considerable difference in the competency rating level.
While the under-representation of clinical care teams in the sample made it difficult to test if the observed differences in the reported competencies between the management and clinical teams were statistically significant, the fact that a sample of health service managers distinguished between competencies for clinical and management teams is an important finding and needs further study.
We found relatively strong differences in the physical-technical competencies depending on the course of studies, the participation in preparatory courses in physics, and the gender: mechanical engineering students, male respondents, and students having participated in preparatory courses in physics achieve much better results.
A one-way MANOVA determined whether there were any significant differences in the five leadership competencies across junior-, midlevel-, senior- and administrator-level positions.
We provided systematic prebriefing activities to investigate differences in the flow, clinical competency, satisfaction, and self-confidence of nursing students who participated in simulation-based education.
The major aim of PIRLS is to describe and compare the level of students' reading competencies in different countries and to explain the differences in reading competencies by so-called contextual factors.
Multivariate linear regression was applied to examine the differences in PSA competencies in adults and in paediatric patients, adjusted for demographic variables.
The differences in their acknowledged competencies to teach the different members of the healthcare team are possibly related to the perception that teaching medical students and nurses is "easier" or requires less knowledge and teaching skills than teaching interns or residents, which are higher in the academic ladder.
