The article discusses the concept of criterion assessment, provides a refined definition of this concept from the standpoint of the competence approach in education. The structural components of the criterion assessment are identified and described, including the concepts of an educational result, an in-dicator and the level of its achievement, an evaluation tool. The article describes the technology of constructing the evaluation object, presented in the form of an educational result obtained by correlating the formulation of competence from the Federal State Educational Standard and labor functions from the Professional Standard of the teacher. It is shown that the formation of an educational result makes it possible to identify indicators of its achieve-ment as criteria for evaluation, which can be different degrees of performance of a specific type of activity or individual actions of the student. The article presents examples of their construction. The mechanism of criteria-based assessment of the competencies of future teachers at the university is described.