summative

Meanings

1. Of, pertaining to, or produced by summation.
2. Synonym of additive.
3. Synonym of summary (adjective).
4. Denoting forms of assessment used to quantify educational outcomes.

1. A summative assessment; a test that assesses what a student learned during a course of study.
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.
3. A cumulative measure.

Etymology

From sum + -ative.