summative assessment

Time and again, the author confuses chattering class dissatisfaction with an honest assessment of accomplishment.

If the losses exceed the premiums thus paid in advance, then an assessment is made on each member to cover the deficiency.

Wherefore they had done generous assessment work and had recorded their claim and built their monuments to mark its boundaries.

You owe the Eureka, as your share of the assessment, two dollars and forty cents.

Approaching the assessment-roll, we may estimate the Astor estate at one thirtieth of the entire city.

In spite of its origin, the “assessment” was the model for later taxation of property.