Meaning

Of, pertaining to, or produced by summation..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of, pertaining to, or produced by summation.
2. (education) Denoting forms of assessment used to quantify educational outcomes.
3. (education) A summative assessment; a test that assesses what a student learned during a course of study.
4. (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.
5. A cumulative measure.

Example Sentences

summative assessment

The reson a summative evaluation might not be available at this point is that it is not unusual to offer summatives for more than one objective as opposed to offering summatives for each objective.

Summatives, on the other hand, are used for comparisons between schools and districts.

All of this was great, and there were many summatives that we loved for many reasons. Since becoming standards based, however, our thoughts on summatives have changed.

Holonym: metadiscourse

The immediate future work is the treatment of summatives (with "total") and symmetric phrases (with the "same").

Summarizers and Concluders (Quirk et al. 1985: summatives) may signal the last element in a list ( 'finally' ) or be used to sum up ( English: 'altogether', 'then' , 'therefore' , and more formal expressions like 'to conclude', 'in conclusion'; Italian: 'In/in breve', 'Allo scopo di sintetizzare).

Sometimes the summative is the center of the paragraph, long or short, as when she describes her first husband, the Brewer, in a short paragraph that, "in short," "cut[s] short a dull Story" (10).

Word Forms

• summatives

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When Should You Use Summative?

Use summative when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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