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 Digital and Information manipulation

 Environment knowledge

 Social and Civic

 Artistic and cultural

 Learn to learn capacity

 Initiative and autonomy

5.1 Profile construction
First of all, we need to explain how will be designed and formed the subject and student
profiles.

5.1.1 Subject profile construction
A subject needs that a student had developed certain set of competences if he or she wants
to pass it. So, the subject profile will consist in the competences and de level of development
that the subject needs to be studied correctly. For example, the subject Spanish Literature
will need a high level of development for Linguistic and Arts competences and hardly in
Mathematics competence.
So, we need to know which level of development each subject needs for each competence.
This information was gathered by means of a questionnaire. We ask a big number of
teachers from several High Schools in which degree (in a 1-5 scale) they think that subjects
they teach need from students to have been developed each competence. Once we had
questionnaire's results, next step was to aggregate them with a simple mean, in order to
obtain a number which represent the level of development required for each competence.
So, subject's profiles will remain as we can see in Table 4.

Competences
/Subject

Mathematics Spanish Literature Social Sciences

Linguistic 1 5 3

Mathematic 5 1 2

Digital 3 2 2

Environment 2 2 5

Social 2 4 5

Arts 2 5 4

Learn to learn 4 3 3

Initiative 3 4 3

Table 4. Subject profiles constructed from competences

5.1.2 Student profile construction
In order to be consequent with subject profiles, student profiles must be built based on
competences. In a specific moment each student has a degree of development for each
competence. For example, it is known that some students outstand in Mathematics and
Digital competences, but lack of Initiative and Arts ones, while on other students can
happen just the opposite, or any other combination.
Spanish Academic System is about to evaluate by means of competences so that in a nearby
future will be possible to know the level of development of each competence in any moment.
However, in the present time this is not completely real. For this reason, in our proposal we