summative

== English == === Etymology === From sum + -ative. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv/ (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv/, [ˈsʌm.ə.ɾɪv] (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈsam.ə.tɪv/, [ˈsam.ə.ɾɪv] === Adjective === summative (not comparable) Of, pertaining to, or produced by summation. Synonym of additive. Synonym of summary (adjective). Synonym: summarizing (part. adj.) Near-synonym: abstractive (education) Denoting forms of assessment used to quantify educational outcomes. Coordinate term: formative ==== Derived terms ==== === Noun === summative (plural summatives) (education) A summative assessment; a test that assesses what a student learned during a course of study. (linguistics) 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 Comeronym: transition A cumulative measure. == German == === Pronunciation === === Adjective === summative inflection of summativ: strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular strong nominative/accusative plural weak nominative all-gender singular weak accusative feminine/neuter singular