summative

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16
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9
Pronunciation
/ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv/
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/ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv/ · /ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv/(US) · [ˈsʌm.ə.ɾɪv](US) · /ˈsam.ə.tɪv/ · [ˈsam.ə.ɾɪv]

Definition of summative

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of, pertaining to, or produced by summation.
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of, pertaining to, or produced by summation.
  2. (not-comparable)Of, pertaining to, or produced by summation.
    “Near-synonym: abstractive”
  3. (not-comparable)Denoting forms of assessment used to quantify educational outcomes.
    “summative assessment”

noun

  1. A summative assessment; a test that assesses what a student learned during a course of study.
    “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.”
  2. 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.
    “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).”
  3. A cumulative measure.
    “The ECB (2021a, 2021b, 2021c), for example, has allowed its supervising banks to operate temporarily under the LCR, and the Swedish regulator (Reuters, 2020) has extended this to various currencies, allowing banks to 'temporarily fall below the liquidity ration (LCR) for individual foreign exchange positions and summatives.'”

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Etymology

From sum + -ative.

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