One of the components of the methodological and theoretical framework that Filloy named “Local Theoretical Models” is the description of the competence in the domain of which teaching and learning are going to be researched. In this paper we show in which sense the term competence is used in this framework and provide examples of the construction of competence models in some investigations. This leads us to examine the relationship between the competence in a mathematical domain and the phenomenological analysis of this domain. Incidentally, we study the use of the term competence in several PISA documents.... [Leer más...]