Diario - Tema 5 - Criterios de evaluación y Estándares de Aprendizaje

There was a lot of confusion among all of us as to what exactly the difference is between the criterios de evaluación and the estandares de aprendizaje. 

Broadly speaking, the criterios de evaliación state in more general terms what I want the student to do, the estandares de aprendizaje specify what will be evaluated. 

Let’s have a look at how this might be applied to a classroom task.  For a class in 4º ESO, a teacher might propose the following writing task:

(Source: Cambridge PET for Schools - Sample Paper)

In this case, the teacher would apply the following criterios de evaluación:

However, what the teacher will evaluate is the following:

In order to evaluate it the teacher will need indicadores, in this case a rubric. 

(Source: Cambridge Assessing Writing Performance at B1)

The grade achieved for this will then be weighted according to whether it is considered basico, intermedio or avanzado.  This would depend on the decisions made by the centre, but in my opinion this type of writing should be considered basico (working on the assumption that students at 4 ESO should in theory finish with a B1 level.)