Definition of formative in English:

formative

adjective ˈfɔːmətɪvˈfɔrmədɪv

1Serving to form something, especially having a profound influence on a person's development.
有助于形成的，对成长有深远影响的
his formative years
他的性格形成时期。
Example sentencesExamples
- In both cases, learning to read was one of the great formative experiences of their lives.
- My father poured vast amounts of love and energy into me during my most formative years.
- But they have a formative influence in Hollywood, the likes of which are rarely found outside Hollywood, whose products radically shape society.
- However, Ruby's insightful arguments and the formative influence of his work mark this collection as one that merits close attention from anthropologists and filmmakers alike.
- Trade and commerce have had a formative influence on America from the Colonial Era onward.
- Everyone who knows Brown concurs in one thing - that his formative influence was his background, and in particular his late father John, a devoutly religious man and a minister in the Church of Scotland.
- His mother was a formative influence, since he did not attend school.
- Many of our older members were a part of AORN in its formative years.
- The question is presumably designed to give us an indication of the artist's earliest formative influences, and so the answers given are invariably - suspiciously - classics.
- The development proposal is at a formative stage and no planning request has been submitted.
- If you like punk enough to get beyond the album cover and the rating and start reading this, you'll know that Pennywise are one of the formative bands of the influential West Coast scene.
- People owe a good deal to their parents and to their early formative years.
- In this formative period, American theater was far more exciting than American plays.
- In 1956 the young Wilson published The Outsider, a study of creativity arguing that psychological alienation is one of the most formative influences on Western culture.
- I am sure that the school was a formative influence on both of us.
- He recalls in bright detail the books, teachers and mentors who served as formative influences in his intellectual development.
- But to begin with, let's listen to her thesis about the history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - and some of the formative influences in its development.
- During the first three months of pregnancy, the foetus is in a formative stage.
- Worship must be the central and formative experience in the life of the congregation.
- Many have been behind bars for years and have spent the formative period of their life there.
Synonyms
developmental, developing, growing, mouldable, malleable, impressionable, susceptible
determining, controlling, influential, guiding, decisive, forming, shaping, moulding, determinative
1. 1.1 Relating to a person's development.
  （与）成长（有关）的
  a formative assessment
  成长评估。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the progress of an effective peer learning program, goals, tasks, and interactions form a reciprocity loop, with formative assessment enabling transition from one to the other.
  Formative evaluation was used to refine program elements and establish feasibility and acceptability.
  The system for portfolio development described in the syllabus reflects periodic formative assessment, but thus far it has been difficult to adhere to the timing of this system.
  With this type of assessment administration, detailed formative feedback on a single test or trends in performance can be provided to students to guide their subsequent learning.
  Timing of the administration of formative assessment relative to major assignments in the course is important.
  The formative collaborative group assessment described in this paper is a very useful additional assessment tool.
  The specific type of rating form to be used, therefore, depends at least partially on whether the purpose of the assessment includes formative assessment.
  The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that teachers need to analyze their own student ratings in order to increase the evaluations' effectiveness as a formative assessment tool.
  Researchers developed the intervention based on formative research needs assessment with the target audience.
  Finally, formative student assessment is not addressed in this plan.
  However, the task of summative assessment for external purposes remains quite different from the task of formative assessment to monitor and improve progress.
  This information could be used to provide formative assessment to the individual students prior to progression.
  The goal of formative assessment is to help the student learn, not to compare the student to others; most particularly, its goal is not to place labels on students.
  Another example of formative assessment is having students write a business letter to King Louis XVI from the perspective of a member of the Third Estate in France prior to the Revolution.
  Excellent formative assessment is about talking while carefully listening, and about carefully listening while talking - at the very least, feeling genuinely able to talk.
  Appraisal is primarily a formative assessment, and should not be used as a regulatory instrument.
  While feedback generally originates from a teacher, learners can also play an important role in formative assessment through self-evaluation.
  These assessments can be formative or summative in nature.
  In addition, the shift from a teacher-centered to a learner-centered educational paradigm creates a need for formative classroom assessment.
  A critical task is to help the learner in constructing a personal learning plan, a process that entails formative appraisal and rigorous assessment of educational needs.
2. 1.2Linguistics Denoting or relating to any of the smallest meaningful units that are used to form words in a language, typically combining forms and inflections.
  〔语言学〕（与）构形成分（有关）的

noun ˈfɔːmətɪvˈfɔrmədɪv

Linguistics

A formative element.
〔语言学〕构形成分
Example sentencesExamples
- Do consumers perceive new ‘e’ and ‘i- ‘formatives as ready-made brand names or as new public domain terms?’
- All possible formatives are separated from the stem and compared against a closed list.
- Different formatives may be customary depending on the verb from which the action nominal derives.
- The attachments of suffixes in the formatives may be seen here.
- Paradigms and different formatives have been presented over and over again as well as word formation means.

Derivatives

formatively
〔语言学〕构形成分

adverb

Portfolios, or collections of student work, may also be used formatively if students and teachers annotate the entries and observe growth over time and practice.
Example sentencesExamples
- Students are assessed both formatively and summatively in each discipline.
- Language and a common heritage facilitate British programme circulation in the US, Australasia, and Canada, societies which have been formatively shaped by British immigration.
- The term can mean gathering information, both formatively and summatively, about what students have learned - and this, then, would look directly to the desired outcomes of learning.
- Although exam participation is required, exam results are used only formatively and have no impact on students' grades or progress.

Origin

Late 15th century: from Old French formatif, -ive or medieval Latin formativus, from Latin formare 'to form' (see form).

Definition of formative in US English:

formative

adjectiveˈfôrmədivˈfɔrmədɪv

1Serving to form something, especially having a profound and lasting influence on a person's development.
有助于形成的，对成长有深远影响的
his formative years
他的性格形成时期。
Example sentencesExamples
- The development proposal is at a formative stage and no planning request has been submitted.
- He recalls in bright detail the books, teachers and mentors who served as formative influences in his intellectual development.
- His mother was a formative influence, since he did not attend school.
- Many have been behind bars for years and have spent the formative period of their life there.
- In both cases, learning to read was one of the great formative experiences of their lives.
- Worship must be the central and formative experience in the life of the congregation.
- I am sure that the school was a formative influence on both of us.
- People owe a good deal to their parents and to their early formative years.
- In this formative period, American theater was far more exciting than American plays.
- If you like punk enough to get beyond the album cover and the rating and start reading this, you'll know that Pennywise are one of the formative bands of the influential West Coast scene.
- The question is presumably designed to give us an indication of the artist's earliest formative influences, and so the answers given are invariably - suspiciously - classics.
- During the first three months of pregnancy, the foetus is in a formative stage.
- In 1956 the young Wilson published The Outsider, a study of creativity arguing that psychological alienation is one of the most formative influences on Western culture.
- However, Ruby's insightful arguments and the formative influence of his work mark this collection as one that merits close attention from anthropologists and filmmakers alike.
- Many of our older members were a part of AORN in its formative years.
- Everyone who knows Brown concurs in one thing - that his formative influence was his background, and in particular his late father John, a devoutly religious man and a minister in the Church of Scotland.
- Trade and commerce have had a formative influence on America from the Colonial Era onward.
- My father poured vast amounts of love and energy into me during my most formative years.
- But they have a formative influence in Hollywood, the likes of which are rarely found outside Hollywood, whose products radically shape society.
- But to begin with, let's listen to her thesis about the history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - and some of the formative influences in its development.
Synonyms
developmental, developing, growing, mouldable, malleable, impressionable, susceptible
determining, controlling, influential, guiding, decisive, forming, shaping, moulding, determinative
1. 1.1 Relating to a person's development.
  （与）成长（有关）的
  a formative assessment
  成长评估。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The system for portfolio development described in the syllabus reflects periodic formative assessment, but thus far it has been difficult to adhere to the timing of this system.
  In addition, the shift from a teacher-centered to a learner-centered educational paradigm creates a need for formative classroom assessment.
  Another example of formative assessment is having students write a business letter to King Louis XVI from the perspective of a member of the Third Estate in France prior to the Revolution.
  While feedback generally originates from a teacher, learners can also play an important role in formative assessment through self-evaluation.
  Timing of the administration of formative assessment relative to major assignments in the course is important.
  This information could be used to provide formative assessment to the individual students prior to progression.
  Formative evaluation was used to refine program elements and establish feasibility and acceptability.
  In the progress of an effective peer learning program, goals, tasks, and interactions form a reciprocity loop, with formative assessment enabling transition from one to the other.
  The specific type of rating form to be used, therefore, depends at least partially on whether the purpose of the assessment includes formative assessment.
  Finally, formative student assessment is not addressed in this plan.
  The goal of formative assessment is to help the student learn, not to compare the student to others; most particularly, its goal is not to place labels on students.
  Researchers developed the intervention based on formative research needs assessment with the target audience.
  The formative collaborative group assessment described in this paper is a very useful additional assessment tool.
  With this type of assessment administration, detailed formative feedback on a single test or trends in performance can be provided to students to guide their subsequent learning.
  The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that teachers need to analyze their own student ratings in order to increase the evaluations' effectiveness as a formative assessment tool.
  These assessments can be formative or summative in nature.
  Excellent formative assessment is about talking while carefully listening, and about carefully listening while talking - at the very least, feeling genuinely able to talk.
  A critical task is to help the learner in constructing a personal learning plan, a process that entails formative appraisal and rigorous assessment of educational needs.
  Appraisal is primarily a formative assessment, and should not be used as a regulatory instrument.
  However, the task of summative assessment for external purposes remains quite different from the task of formative assessment to monitor and improve progress.
2. 1.2Linguistics Denoting or relating to any of the smallest meaningful units that are used to form words in a language, typically combining forms and inflections.
  〔语言学〕（与）构形成分（有关）的

nounˈfôrmədivˈfɔrmədɪv

Linguistics

A formative element.
〔语言学〕构形成分
Example sentencesExamples
- Paradigms and different formatives have been presented over and over again as well as word formation means.
- All possible formatives are separated from the stem and compared against a closed list.
- The attachments of suffixes in the formatives may be seen here.
- Different formatives may be customary depending on the verb from which the action nominal derives.
- Do consumers perceive new ‘e’ and ‘i- ‘formatives as ready-made brand names or as new public domain terms?’

Origin

Late 15th century: from Old French formatif, -ive or medieval Latin formativus, from Latin formare ‘to form’ (see form).

单词	formative
释义	Definition of formative in English: formative adjective ˈfɔːmətɪvˈfɔrmədɪv 1Serving to form something, especially having a profound influence on a person's development. 有助于形成的，对成长有深远影响的 his formative years 他的性格形成时期。 Example sentencesExamples In both cases, learning to read was one of the great formative experiences of their lives. My father poured vast amounts of love and energy into me during my most formative years. But they have a formative influence in Hollywood, the likes of which are rarely found outside Hollywood, whose products radically shape society. However, Ruby's insightful arguments and the formative influence of his work mark this collection as one that merits close attention from anthropologists and filmmakers alike. Trade and commerce have had a formative influence on America from the Colonial Era onward. Everyone who knows Brown concurs in one thing - that his formative influence was his background, and in particular his late father John, a devoutly religious man and a minister in the Church of Scotland. His mother was a formative influence, since he did not attend school. Many of our older members were a part of AORN in its formative years. The question is presumably designed to give us an indication of the artist's earliest formative influences, and so the answers given are invariably - suspiciously - classics. The development proposal is at a formative stage and no planning request has been submitted. If you like punk enough to get beyond the album cover and the rating and start reading this, you'll know that Pennywise are one of the formative bands of the influential West Coast scene. People owe a good deal to their parents and to their early formative years. In this formative period, American theater was far more exciting than American plays. In 1956 the young Wilson published The Outsider, a study of creativity arguing that psychological alienation is one of the most formative influences on Western culture. I am sure that the school was a formative influence on both of us. He recalls in bright detail the books, teachers and mentors who served as formative influences in his intellectual development. But to begin with, let's listen to her thesis about the history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - and some of the formative influences in its development. During the first three months of pregnancy, the foetus is in a formative stage. Worship must be the central and formative experience in the life of the congregation. Many have been behind bars for years and have spent the formative period of their life there. Synonyms developmental, developing, growing, mouldable, malleable, impressionable, susceptible determining, controlling, influential, guiding, decisive, forming, shaping, moulding, determinative 1.1 Relating to a person's development. （与）成长（有关）的 a formative assessment 成长评估。 Example sentencesExamples In the progress of an effective peer learning program, goals, tasks, and interactions form a reciprocity loop, with formative assessment enabling transition from one to the other. Formative evaluation was used to refine program elements and establish feasibility and acceptability. The system for portfolio development described in the syllabus reflects periodic formative assessment, but thus far it has been difficult to adhere to the timing of this system. With this type of assessment administration, detailed formative feedback on a single test or trends in performance can be provided to students to guide their subsequent learning. Timing of the administration of formative assessment relative to major assignments in the course is important. The formative collaborative group assessment described in this paper is a very useful additional assessment tool. The specific type of rating form to be used, therefore, depends at least partially on whether the purpose of the assessment includes formative assessment. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that teachers need to analyze their own student ratings in order to increase the evaluations' effectiveness as a formative assessment tool. Researchers developed the intervention based on formative research needs assessment with the target audience. Finally, formative student assessment is not addressed in this plan. However, the task of summative assessment for external purposes remains quite different from the task of formative assessment to monitor and improve progress. This information could be used to provide formative assessment to the individual students prior to progression. The goal of formative assessment is to help the student learn, not to compare the student to others; most particularly, its goal is not to place labels on students. Another example of formative assessment is having students write a business letter to King Louis XVI from the perspective of a member of the Third Estate in France prior to the Revolution. Excellent formative assessment is about talking while carefully listening, and about carefully listening while talking - at the very least, feeling genuinely able to talk. Appraisal is primarily a formative assessment, and should not be used as a regulatory instrument. While feedback generally originates from a teacher, learners can also play an important role in formative assessment through self-evaluation. These assessments can be formative or summative in nature. In addition, the shift from a teacher-centered to a learner-centered educational paradigm creates a need for formative classroom assessment. A critical task is to help the learner in constructing a personal learning plan, a process that entails formative appraisal and rigorous assessment of educational needs. 1.2Linguistics Denoting or relating to any of the smallest meaningful units that are used to form words in a language, typically combining forms and inflections. 〔语言学〕（与）构形成分（有关）的 noun ˈfɔːmətɪvˈfɔrmədɪv Linguistics A formative element. 〔语言学〕构形成分 Example sentencesExamples Do consumers perceive new ‘e’ and ‘i- ‘formatives as ready-made brand names or as new public domain terms?’ All possible formatives are separated from the stem and compared against a closed list. Different formatives may be customary depending on the verb from which the action nominal derives. The attachments of suffixes in the formatives may be seen here. Paradigms and different formatives have been presented over and over again as well as word formation means. Derivatives formatively 〔语言学〕构形成分 adverb Portfolios, or collections of student work, may also be used formatively if students and teachers annotate the entries and observe growth over time and practice. Example sentencesExamples Students are assessed both formatively and summatively in each discipline. Language and a common heritage facilitate British programme circulation in the US, Australasia, and Canada, societies which have been formatively shaped by British immigration. The term can mean gathering information, both formatively and summatively, about what students have learned - and this, then, would look directly to the desired outcomes of learning. Although exam participation is required, exam results are used only formatively and have no impact on students' grades or progress. Origin Late 15th century: from Old French formatif, -ive or medieval Latin formativus, from Latin formare 'to form' (see form). Definition of formative in US English: formative adjectiveˈfôrmədivˈfɔrmədɪv 1Serving to form something, especially having a profound and lasting influence on a person's development. 有助于形成的，对成长有深远影响的 his formative years 他的性格形成时期。 Example sentencesExamples The development proposal is at a formative stage and no planning request has been submitted. He recalls in bright detail the books, teachers and mentors who served as formative influences in his intellectual development. His mother was a formative influence, since he did not attend school. Many have been behind bars for years and have spent the formative period of their life there. In both cases, learning to read was one of the great formative experiences of their lives. Worship must be the central and formative experience in the life of the congregation. I am sure that the school was a formative influence on both of us. People owe a good deal to their parents and to their early formative years. In this formative period, American theater was far more exciting than American plays. If you like punk enough to get beyond the album cover and the rating and start reading this, you'll know that Pennywise are one of the formative bands of the influential West Coast scene. The question is presumably designed to give us an indication of the artist's earliest formative influences, and so the answers given are invariably - suspiciously - classics. During the first three months of pregnancy, the foetus is in a formative stage. In 1956 the young Wilson published The Outsider, a study of creativity arguing that psychological alienation is one of the most formative influences on Western culture. However, Ruby's insightful arguments and the formative influence of his work mark this collection as one that merits close attention from anthropologists and filmmakers alike. Many of our older members were a part of AORN in its formative years. Everyone who knows Brown concurs in one thing - that his formative influence was his background, and in particular his late father John, a devoutly religious man and a minister in the Church of Scotland. Trade and commerce have had a formative influence on America from the Colonial Era onward. My father poured vast amounts of love and energy into me during my most formative years. But they have a formative influence in Hollywood, the likes of which are rarely found outside Hollywood, whose products radically shape society. But to begin with, let's listen to her thesis about the history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - and some of the formative influences in its development. Synonyms developmental, developing, growing, mouldable, malleable, impressionable, susceptible determining, controlling, influential, guiding, decisive, forming, shaping, moulding, determinative 1.1 Relating to a person's development. （与）成长（有关）的 a formative assessment 成长评估。 Example sentencesExamples The system for portfolio development described in the syllabus reflects periodic formative assessment, but thus far it has been difficult to adhere to the timing of this system. In addition, the shift from a teacher-centered to a learner-centered educational paradigm creates a need for formative classroom assessment. Another example of formative assessment is having students write a business letter to King Louis XVI from the perspective of a member of the Third Estate in France prior to the Revolution. While feedback generally originates from a teacher, learners can also play an important role in formative assessment through self-evaluation. Timing of the administration of formative assessment relative to major assignments in the course is important. This information could be used to provide formative assessment to the individual students prior to progression. Formative evaluation was used to refine program elements and establish feasibility and acceptability. In the progress of an effective peer learning program, goals, tasks, and interactions form a reciprocity loop, with formative assessment enabling transition from one to the other. The specific type of rating form to be used, therefore, depends at least partially on whether the purpose of the assessment includes formative assessment. Finally, formative student assessment is not addressed in this plan. The goal of formative assessment is to help the student learn, not to compare the student to others; most particularly, its goal is not to place labels on students. Researchers developed the intervention based on formative research needs assessment with the target audience. The formative collaborative group assessment described in this paper is a very useful additional assessment tool. With this type of assessment administration, detailed formative feedback on a single test or trends in performance can be provided to students to guide their subsequent learning. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that teachers need to analyze their own student ratings in order to increase the evaluations' effectiveness as a formative assessment tool. These assessments can be formative or summative in nature. Excellent formative assessment is about talking while carefully listening, and about carefully listening while talking - at the very least, feeling genuinely able to talk. A critical task is to help the learner in constructing a personal learning plan, a process that entails formative appraisal and rigorous assessment of educational needs. Appraisal is primarily a formative assessment, and should not be used as a regulatory instrument. However, the task of summative assessment for external purposes remains quite different from the task of formative assessment to monitor and improve progress. 1.2Linguistics Denoting or relating to any of the smallest meaningful units that are used to form words in a language, typically combining forms and inflections. 〔语言学〕（与）构形成分（有关）的 nounˈfôrmədivˈfɔrmədɪv Linguistics A formative element. 〔语言学〕构形成分 Example sentencesExamples Paradigms and different formatives have been presented over and over again as well as word formation means. All possible formatives are separated from the stem and compared against a closed list. The attachments of suffixes in the formatives may be seen here. Different formatives may be customary depending on the verb from which the action nominal derives. Do consumers perceive new ‘e’ and ‘i- ‘formatives as ready-made brand names or as new public domain terms?’ Origin Late 15th century: from Old French formatif, -ive or medieval Latin formativus, from Latin formare ‘to form’ (see form).
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