Summative
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Summative is an adjective meaning Of, pertaining to, or produced by summation.
Meaning
Of, pertaining to, or produced by summation.
More Meanings
- (education) Denoting forms of assessment used to quantify educational outcomes.
- (education) A summative assessment; a test that assesses what a student learned during a course of study.
- A cumulative measure.
- (linguistics) A word or phrase, such as "in short" or "therefore", that signals that the area of the utterance (text or speech) that contains it is summarizing a larger body of information.
Example Sentences
summative assessment
Holonym: metadiscourse
Summatives, on the other hand, are used for comparisons between schools and districts.
The immediate future work is the treatment of summatives (with "total") and symmetric phrases (with the "same").
Word Forms
- summatives
Synonyms for summative
Depending on context, synonyms include additive, summational.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include summational, additive, formative, summary, final, summatory.
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