summative /ˈsʌm.ə.tɪv/noun 3adjective 4forms 1 noun3 •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. — 1989 •A cumulative measure. •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.The immediate future work is the treatment of summatives (with "total") and symmetric phrases (with the "same"). — 2015 adjective4 •Of, pertaining to, or produced by summation. •Denoting forms of assessment used to quantify educational outcomes. •Synonym of additive. •Synonym of summary (adjective). formssummatives
