The term" competence" is already known in a business context and it is associated with the concept of quality. In regards to education, it has been used since 1992 and has been widely accepted in this field. Unfortunately, when it comes to teaching in a classroom context putting this into practice has created some confusion. Still, its polysemantic assumption has caused evaluations of students to render faulty results. The report given by PISA in 2012 referring to Colombia shows the analysis of the performance of 510.000 high school