summative

1. (education) A summative assessment; a test that assesses what a student learned during a course of study.Examples: "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."; "Summatives, on the other hand, are used for comparisons between schools and districts."; "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."

2. (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.Examples: "Holonym: metadiscourse"; "The immediate future work is the treatment of summatives (with "total") and symmetric phrases (with the "same")."; "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)."