Summative

//ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 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"

  3. 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.'"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or produced by summation.; Synonym of additive. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Of, pertaining to, or produced by summation.; Synonym of summary (adjective). not-comparable

    "Near-synonym: abstractive"

  3. 3
    Denoting forms of assessment used to quantify educational outcomes. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to a summation or produced by summation wordnet

Synonyms

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abstractiveadditionaladditiveadditivechaincumulative

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From sum + -ative.

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