La evaluación mide el desempeño y da retroalimentación.

In Spanish, it is very common to use the definite article with nouns, even in cases where English might not.

Here, la evaluación means the evaluation or the assessment. It can refer to:

• a specific evaluation already understood from context, or
• the evaluation process in general

Saying just evaluación is possible in some contexts, but la evaluación sounds more natural in a complete statement like this.

Because the verb is medir (to measure), and it is a stem-changing verb.

In the present tense, e changes to i in most forms:

• yo mido
• tú mides
• él/ella mide
• nosotros medimos
• ellos miden

So la evaluación mide means the evaluation measures.

Here, desempeño means performance—how well someone does a task, job, or activity.

In other contexts, desempeño can also relate to fulfillment, execution, or carrying out a role, but in educational or workplace language, el desempeño usually means performance.

So mide el desempeño means measures performance.

Because desempeño is a masculine noun, so it takes the masculine singular article el.

A few things to notice:

• desempeño ends in -o, which is often masculine
• the ñ is a separate letter in Spanish
• the article must match the noun: el desempeño

In Spanish, especially in Latin America, dar retroalimentación is a very common and natural expression for to give feedback.

Literally, it is:

• da = gives
• retroalimentación = feedback

So the phrase works just like English give feedback.

There is also a verb retroalimentar, but dar retroalimentación is often more common in everyday educational or professional language.

Spanish often leaves out subject pronouns when the subject is already clear.

Here, the subject is explicitly stated: la evaluación.

So once you have la evaluación, you do not need to add a pronoun. Both verbs share that same subject:

• La evaluación mide...
• (La evaluación) da...

In English, you would normally repeat the subject less often too: The evaluation measures performance and gives feedback.

Because both are direct objects, and neither is a specific person.

In Spanish, the so-called personal a is usually used before a specific human direct object, as in:

• Veo a María.

But here:

• el desempeño = performance
• retroalimentación = feedback

These are things, not people, so no a is used.

Yes, very important.

• evaluación has an accent on -ción
• retroalimentación also has an accent on -ción
• desempeño uses ñ, not n

These matter for both spelling and pronunciation.

For example:

• ñ sounds like the ny in canyon
• the written accents show where the stress goes:
  • e-va-lua-CIÓN
  • re-tro-a-li-men-ta-CIÓN

Even when people understand you without accents in informal typing, the correct written forms should include them.

Yes. Depending on context, evaluación can mean:

• evaluation
• assessment
• sometimes even testing or appraisal

If this sentence appears in education, training, or HR, assessment may sound very natural in English:

• The assessment measures performance and gives feedback.

So the best English word depends on context, even though the Spanish stays the same.

Yes. The conjunction y (and) changes to e before words that begin with an i sound.

For example:

• padre e hijo
• España e Italia

But here the next word is da, which does not begin with an i sound, so it stays y:

• mide el desempeño y da retroalimentación

Yes, Spanish word order is somewhat flexible.

For example, you could also say:

• La evaluación da retroalimentación y mide el desempeño.

That is grammatically correct too. The original sentence is simply one natural way to present the two actions.

In the original version, the order may suggest:

1. first, the evaluation measures performance
2. then, it gives feedback

So the order can sometimes slightly affect emphasis, even if the basic meaning stays the same.