"summary question" is a valid phrase in written English
You would use it when you want to ask an overall question which sums up a longer discussion. For example, "What have we learned from this debate about the environment?" is a summary question which encompasses the whole discussion.
It's often useful to end a productive conversation with a summary question: "What one to two things, above all others, would be most helpful in building confidence that I can succeed at a higher level?" If you've shown that you're open to the feedback, this question can bring into high relief the most critical things you need to focus on.
The results of the summary question ("overall") is telling.
This process inevitably led to similar suggestions being amalgamated into a summary question that was broader in scope than the individual suggestions contributing to it.
16 Literature searches were conducted, principally in the Cochrane Library and MEDLINE, for published systematic reviews relevant to each summary question.
The survey also contained a summary question about transition satisfaction, with five response options: completely dissatisfied, mostly dissatisfied, neutral, mostly satisfied, and completely satisfied.
Among all study women, paan chewing (ever vs never OR=2.4) and vegetable and fruit intake (summary question) (highest vs lowest intake tertile OR=0.5) were associated with ICC risk.
The city's Board of Representatives approved the entire package of charter changes in June, and then in August approved the 10 summary questions that will appear on the ballot.
Evaluation / Assessment: Students will be evaluated based on initial group questions about a news summary, responses to other groups' news summary questions, and thoughtful and complete "progressive collages" with written keys and analyses.
The FFQ included approximately 120 food items and summary questions for fruits and vegetables that were used to compute energy intake and two measures of fruit and vegetable intake.
Measure 1 was computed as the sum of intake of individual FFQ fruit and vegetable items; Measure 2 combined the summary questions with selected individual FFQ fruit and vegetable items.
Documented information included a basic demographic summary, question-by-question results and overall comments.
