Assessment is an ongoing process and should be an integral part of the teaching-learning process. This means that the educator must be constantly evaluating student learning with the guidelines offered by the learning objectives, content and teaching suggestions of the study programs.

Education must be based on criteria; Without these, teachers cannot make value judgments because there is no clarity in what is expected of learning. Without criteria, evaluation becomes arbitrary and unfair. The evaluation criteria support the judgment that is made about learning.

Assessment evaluates what students do to demonstrate what they have learned.

The evaluation requires the student to demonstrate competencies. What students do is valued to demonstrate what they have learned, that is, the skills learned. In this sense, the evaluation will not only deal with finding out if the student can memorize and repeat, but will collect information about other important learning, such as organizing and analyzing information; produce and interpret texts; solve problems; apply knowledge to understand phenomena of reality; express communicate feelings; and put values into practice. The concept of competence is used in a broad sense and does not refer only to cognitive competences.