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summative

Pronunciation: /ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv/

The English word “summative” has 6 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Synonym of additive.
  2. Synonym of summary (adjective).
  3. Denoting forms of assessment used to quantify educational outcomes.

noun

  1. A summative assessment; a test that assesses what a student learned during a course of study.
  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.
  3. A cumulative measure.

Etymology

From sum + -ative.

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