The article commented upon by the author describes a research project which, in the course of its development, has undergone a sort of metamorphosis: the project started out with a broadly formulated, normative-application- oriented question; but after having taken up constructive-critical stimuli from a two-stage peer review procedure, it now pursues empirically oriented, adaptable pure research on competence modelling on a methodologically high level and within a disciplinary context in which research of that kind has so far hardly been common practice.