generatively
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7.5
- adverb
- /ˈdʒɛnəˌrətɪvli/
- The workshop encouraged participants to generate ideas generatively, fostering an environment where new and exciting concepts could emerge.
- teach generatively
Examples
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They applied the strategies generatively to randomly presented role-play situations at substantially higher levels after training than before training.
Academic text (1992) -
Several intervention studies have been conducted that indicate that individuals with learning disabilities can learn to generatively use complex systems of social skills at mastery levels.
Academic text (1992) -
"I had never taught generatively before, and I felt like I was sitting backwards in my desk.
Academic text (2004) -
In evaluation research, nineteen former instructors in First Nations Partnership Programs offered accounts of their experiences teaching generatively.
Academic text (2004) -
Additionally, this study indicates that students can generatively use a complex strategy like the test-taking strategy across different tests since they took a different test each time they were asked to apply the strategy.
Academic text (1993) -
While we codify and use models, we spend too little time teaching our students to think generatively, conceptually, and theoretically for themselves.
Academic text (1992) -
In order to teach generatively, instructors need to be open to realities that differ from their own, and they need to value the knowledge and experience of students.
Academic text (2004) -
The students worked together to brainstorm ideas for their project, thinking generatively to come up with innovative solutions.
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By approaching the problem generatively, the team was able to develop a series of creative concepts that exceeded their expectations.
How Generative
Surface Forms
Morphology
generatively = generative (transparent) = generate + ive + ly
A regular adverb formed by adding '-ly' to the adjective 'generative', whose meaning derives directly from 'generate'.
Etymology
The word generatively comes from the part gen- meaning 'to produce' or 'be born', the same part you see in generate and generation. So to do something generatively is to do it in a way that 'produces' or 'creates' new things.