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Normative vs Summative - What's the difference?

normative | summative |

As adjectives the difference between normative and summative

is that normative is of or pertaining to a norm or standard while summative is of, pertaining to, or produced by summation.

normative

English

(wikipedia normative)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
  • Conforming to a norm or norms.
    • normative behaviour
  • Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.
    • normative grammar

    Hyponyms

    * prescriptive * proscriptive

    Derived terms

    * normative economics * normative ethics * normative grammar * normatively * normativeness * normative science * normative system * normativist * normativity

    Related terms

    * norm * normal

    summative

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, pertaining to, or produced by summation

    • Synonyms

    * additive

    Derived terms

    * summatively