| Authors/Year | Results |
| | · Responsibility (legal perspective) · “Effective power to act of institutions that determines according to the fulfillment of a specific task the means available” (p. 146) (legal perspective) |
| | · Observable performance/standard or quality of the outcome of the performance (output-based “in making the demonstration of competent performance an … observable measure of human performance”) (p. 284) · Underlying attributes of a person (input-based to design instruction) |
| | · Jurisdiction and disposal over means of enforcement (Sociology Max Weber), · Universal, inherited modularized ability to acquire the mother tongue (Linguistics. Chomsky), · Learnable context-specific performance dispositions that relate functionally to situations and demands in specific domains (pragmatic-functional psychology). |
| | · Coincide/coincidence · Targeting · Ability to objectify (through general claim juristically grounded entitlement · Responsibility · Permitted action space (reference object) · Harmony of ought and can: task and ability |
| | · Behaviorist construct: Description of behavior and the situation in which it takes place · Generic construct: general abilities · Cognitive construct |
| | Subject-specific ability to reliably fulfill subject-specific demands under normal circumstances. |
| | · Behavior or performance (a logical or empirical connection between specific behavior or performances and some unit of competence must be demonstrated (this conception not employed) · Command of knowledge or skills (not easy to determine what knowledge and skills persons require if they are to be competent) · Degree or level of capability deemed sufficient (in case of complex action difficult value judgment) · Quality of a person or as a state of being (when the quality being judged is fully explicated and justified, is a simple and objective process) |
| | · Objectivist point of view: Criteria: truth of definition · Constructivist point of view: Criteria: viability of definition: Extent to which the constructed definition has proved to be adequate in the context in which it is used. |
| | · Intellectual abilities: general and domain-specific (general psychological dispositional construct), · Cognitive abilities, skills, knowledge, strategies, routines necessary for mastering specific demands, expectations and performance criteria (specific performance disposition), · Motivation: subjective estimation of personal performance resources and related motivational action tendencies. |