Semantic Models for Competence-Based Assessment

2. Theoretical Background

Though the rapidly increasing number of related work published in recent years, the theoretical grounding is still weak as a whole, especially in the introduction of concepts. In fact, the concepts of competence and competency are almost used substitutably without distinction. Hence, we introduce in this section the theoretical background of the paper, including the definitions of the concepts competence, competency and the competence-based assessment.