formativeadjective
uk/ˈfɔː.mə.tɪv/us/ˈfɔːr.mə.t̬ɪv/formalrelating to the time when someone or something is starting to develop in character:
She spent her formative years in Africa.
a formative experience
a formative period
specialized education A formative assessment happens while a student is being taught about a subject, rather than at the end of a year or unit of work, in order to check their progress:
Continual formative assessment of student understanding through observation, student questioning, and written assignments helps teachers decide how well students are doing.
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First and firstly
- at first idiom
- begin
- debut
- first come, first served idiom
- firstly
- for starters idiom
- in the first/second place idiom
- inaugural
- initial
- initially
- introduction
- opener
- place
- prefatory
- primary
- proto-
- starter
- to begin with idiom
- ur-
- word
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