Evaluativas

Evaluativas is a term used in Spanish-language discourse to refer to expressions that convey value judgments or assessments. As a feminine plural adjective, evaluativas describes items, frases or phenomena that are evaluated in terms of quality, usefulness, desirability, or significance. In natural language, evaluativas can occur as adjectives, adverbs, or whole utterances and often function as labels for a class of discourse items such as expresiones evaluativas or frases evaluativas.

In linguistics, evaluativas are expressions that encode the speaker's stance toward the referent or proposition. They include adjectives (for example, excelente, terrible, fantástico), adverbs or intensifiers that modify evaluatives, and certain interjections. Evaluatives mark appraisal and can be positive, negative, or neutral with respect to value judgment. They contribute to discourse stance, affect, and rhetorical emphasis, and their interpretation depends on context and shared cultural conventions.

In education, evaluativas refer to assessment instruments, criteria or items used to judge performance. The term is common in rubrics, exams, and tasks designed to measure quality rather than mere factual recall. Evaluative rubrics specify dimensions such as accuracy, reasoning, coherence, and completeness, and can be used for summative or formative purposes.

Related terms include valorativas, which overlap in meaning as value judgments. In translation, evaluativas is rendered as evaluative. See also valoración, rúbrica evaluativa, análisis evaluativo.