"substantive competence" is correct and usable in written English.
It is defined as "the ability to understand and apply the facts and principles of a given subject". For example, "The candidate demonstrated substantive competence in accounting principles during the job interview."
This trend can be subdivided into the issues of administrative decision-making competence and substantive regulatory control.
While it is great to be inspired, our times also call for competence, leadership and substantive experience to bring about the real changes toward universal health care, fiscal responsibility, environmental stewardship and so much more that will make us truly "believe in ourselves".
Furthermore, high school students perceived substantive feedback to be more competence-supportive than comparative feedback (Rakoczy, Harks, Klieme, Blum, & Hochweber, 2013).
But in a network, legal paraphernalia stays in the background: the substantive decisions are taken by the competence-based network.
And it is this opposition – competence v charisma – rather than substantive policy disagreements, that is framing the election.
The procedure gives meaning to test scores and is used here to derive the substantive interpretation of the levels of increasing competence.
Structured student debates have great potential for promoting competence and in-depth knowledge of substantive topics relevant to practice.
Using a simulated learning environment has great potential for promoting competence and in-depth knowledge of substantive topics relevant to practice.
Benson is careful to point out that a requirement of normative competence should not be conflated with a strong substantive conception of autonomy in which the theory places direct normative constraints on the contents of the preferences of autonomous agents.
The main substantive foci of board discussion were the overall performance and competence of the management of the trust ('corporate governance'), the management of clinical quality ('clinical governance') and finance.
