Definitions

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  • adverb In a summative manner.
  • adverb education By means of summative assessments, aiming to summarize earlier knowledge with periodic tests.

Etymologies

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summative +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Taken summatively (the witness said he pulled the trigger, the ballistics report shows that the bullet came from a gun he owned, he was overheard saying he would "get" the victim, etc.) these different reasons may provide a strong (but not conclusive) conductive argument for this conclusion.

    Informal Logic Groarke, Leo 2007

  • OTJ is not an assessment task - there is no National Standards test An OTJ is only one of many judgments teachers make about student achievement It can be used both summatively (summarises information from a certain time period) and formatively (used to inform teaching and learning strategies)

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows LearningMedia 2010

  • - Assessment: Atomised approaches to assessing learning at module level and narrow, summatively-driven assessment practices that focus on what is known will inhibit creativity.

    LearnHub Activities 2009

  • - Critical thinking activities - Students evaluate learning process formatively and summatively.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

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