However, there is also variation in competencies of teachers and facilities.
It should be noted that variations in curriculum and pedagogy between universities resulted in variations in competencies.
The study also explored potential variations in competencies between different settings and the roles and tasks that physicians and nurses are actually performing in the community settings of Pakistan, with the intent that functional roles could be translated into and categorized under the identified competencies for curricular revisions.
At the same time, there is much more variation in the competencies of individuals of the same age, and much more variation in the developmental patterns by which particular competences are achieved, than is implied by strict life stage development perspectives.
As for the similarities and differences between the characteristics of the instruments, the main conclusion is that there is huge variation in the competencies being assessed, rating scales, frame of reference, assessor training and learner instruction.
Stratigraphic variations in sediment competency, and the subsequent alternating distributed and localised strain causes complexities within the mixed zone such as undeformed blocks or lenses of cohesive sediment, or asperities at the mixed zone/protolith boundary.
When students are given the opportunity to experience home-care or community visits these tend to be unstructured leading to wide variations in their competencies.
It would be an advantage if further work that assesses parental impressions of a child's communication ability could at the same time evaluate the speech perceptual ability of the parents and their sensitivity to variations in the competencies that were being rated.
The instrument (Additional file 3), designed by the research team, was developed to collect data with regard to group dynamics, behavioural change techniques, variation in language used, delivery styles and cultural competency of lay educators.
Including levels of mastery in competency frameworks can be valuable.
