Sentence examples for underlying competences from inspiring English sources

Can-do descriptors describe performances typical of a proficiency level, which are observable, measurable and describable, rather than underlying competences, which are not directly observable and therefore difficult to measure and describe.

Since the understanding of social competences remains controversial, answers of different nature were given and, once again, we concluded on the underlying competences, based on the understanding that they are a dynamic (trainable) cognitive concept, representing an essential prerequisite to competent behavior (Weinert 2001).

A dual approach was selected for the job and requirements analysis (Krumm et al. 2012): Following a "bottom up" approach, respondents were asked to describe specific favorable and less favorable behavior in certain situations and, in the following evaluation, we concluded on the underlying competences on which these behaviors were based.

In order to show this good performance, students probably also know how to perform and consequently master the underlying competences necessary for performing the task (Miller 1990).

When students progress in the study program, explicit attention should be paid to training students to interpret their own behaviours in terms of the underlying competences.

Nevertheless, while talking about knowledge, the general proficiency model "is also more orientated towards modelling the process of language use than toward understanding underlying competence" (Spolsky, 1985, p.186), implying that performance over a singular test is rarely able to measure underlying communicative competence.

This general result is in line with findings that accuracy but not latency is related to underlying competence [ 10, 21] and, therefore, is not differentially affected by contextual factors.

It has been argued that in visual search tasks the number of errors and not latency is related to underlying competence [ 10, 21], i.e. to executive function (see [ 22]).

This consistency, he suggests, shows that low mobility may be down to differences in underlying "social competence".

B. subtilis is a suitable model for studying the molecular mechanisms underlying natural competence development and sporulation [ 109].

Genetic study of Ae. aegypti is requisite for characterizing everything from its patterns of spread to genetic factors underlying its competence as a disease vector.