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PUTRI TIFFANI FAUZIA. NIM 1001065174. An Item Analysis of the
English Summative Test of Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 29 Jakarta in the
2013/2014 Academic Year. A paper, Jakarta : The School of Teacher Training and
Pedagogy of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA University, 2015.
The main objective of this research were: 1) to find out whether or not
the English Summative test is in a good quality based on the difficulty level and
discriminating power of the test items, 2) to classify which items needed to be
kept, revised or discarded, 3) to find out the possible causes why the test items
should be revised and made the alternative revision for each item. This research
was administered at tenth grade students of SMAN 29 Jakarta. The English
Summative test consist of 50 multiple choice items. For the partical purpose, the
writer will simply analyze multiple choice. It can be analyzed using analysis
method. The methods that are used in this research are both descriptive
quantitative method and qualitative analysis. Descriptive quantitative method is
used to get the facility value and discrimination power. Qualitative analysis is
used in analyzing the data scores to detect the test items.
The respondents of this research are the tenth grade students of SMA
NEGERI 29 Jakarta. There are 2 classes which consist of 67 students. The
respondents of this research were divided into 2 groups; they are upper and lower
group. In analyzing the difficulty level and discriminating power, the writer uses
the formula suggested by Heaton. After analyzing the difficulty level and
discriminating power, it is discovered that the test items for the tenth grade
students of SMAN 29 Jakarta could be said not in a good quality, because almost
all the items are categorized as easy items and from 50 items, there are 21 items
are kept, 25 items revised and 4 items discarded.
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