Summative

//ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv//

"Summative" in a Sentence (9 examples)

Near-synonym: abstractive

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).

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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