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summative en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv/ (Canada, US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• [ˈsʌm.ə.ɾɪv] (Canada, US)
• /ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• [ˈsam.ə.ɾɪv] (Australia)
• /ˈsam.ə.tɪv/ (Australia)

Etymology

Etymology tree English sum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English -ative English summative From sum + -ative.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of, pertaining to, or produced by summation. ▸ Synonym of additive.
2. (not-comparable) Of, pertaining to, or produced by summation. ▸ Synonym of summary (adjective).
   • Near-synonym: abstractive
3. (not-comparable) Denoting forms of assessment used to quantify educational outcomes.
   • summative assessment

Coordinates

formative

Deriveds

nonsummative · summatively

Synonyms

additive · abstractive · summarizing[participial adjective|part. adj.]]> · summary

summative en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv/ (Canada, US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• [ˈsʌm.ə.ɾɪv] (Canada, US)
• /ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• [ˈsam.ə.ɾɪv] (Australia)
• /ˈsam.ə.tɪv/ (Australia)

Etymology

Etymology tree English sum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English -ative English summative From sum + -ative.

Meanings

1. A summative assessment; a test that assesses what a student learned during a course of study.
   • 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. 2018, Emily Rinkema, Stan Williams, The Standards-Based Classroom: Make Learning the Goal, page 58:
   • Summatives, on the other hand, are used for comparisons between schools and districts. 2015, Michael K. Raible, Every Child, Every Day, page 22:
   • 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. 1989, David A. Jacobsen, David Jacobsen, Paul D. Eggen, Methods for Teaching: A Skills Approach, page 215:
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
   • 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). 2015, Jesús Romero-Trillo, Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2015, page 250:
   • 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). 2019, Cynthia Wall, Grammars of Approach, page 184:
   • The immediate future work is the treatment of summatives (with "total") and symmetric phrases (with the "same"). 2015, Oleg Kiselyov, “Canonical Constituents and Non-canonical Coordination”, in Tsuyoshi Murata, Koji Mineshima, Daisuke Bekki, editor, New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence:
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.' 2022, Simon Grima, Ercan Özen, Inna Romānova, Managing Risk and Decision Making in Times of Economic Distress:

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