Lic. Claudia P. Rivera, Lic. Germán D. Restrepo and MG. Édgar H. Ramírez

The current project presents as a research problem the low results of Pruebas Saber 5°, among the years 2012 and 2015 of the institute, specifically, in the language field, therefore, this one consists of the incidence of a competence assessment strategy type Prueba Saber 5° in the critical reading competence on the part of fifth grade students, carried out at Institución Educativa Corazón del Valle, sede San Judas Tadeo located in Tuluá city. On the other hand, the current research had a quantitative-explicative approach, seeing that, the outcomes were shown in graphics and statistics, at the same time they were explained during the process. Finally, the research project presents results and conclusions which prove the hypothesis related to the fact that a competence assessment strategy has a positive influence in the critical reading competence on the part of the research subjects.