RUKHUL AFLAH KHASANAH.NIM: 10010650205. AnItem Analysis of the
English Summative Test for the Eleventh Grade Students of SMAN 29 Jakarta
in the Second Semester of the 2013/2014 Academic Year.A Paper, Jakarta, The
English Programme of English Education The School of Teachers Training and
Education The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2015.
The objective of the study is to answer the question of the study whether
or not the English Summative Test for the Eleventh Grade Students of SMAN 29
Jakarta in the Second Semester can be catagorized as a good test based on the
difficulty level, and the discriminating power. The study was conducted at SMAN
29 South Jakarta, on March 25th 2015.The test of this study consisted of 55
multiple choice items. The respondents of this study were 78 students divided into
25% of upper, 50% medium, and 25% of lower group. In this matter, the writer
did not use the medium group, which was about 50% because the item analysis
needed only the upper group and the lower group as a sample analysis.The writer
used J.B.Heaton formulation as a reference to analyze the difficulty level and
discriminationg power of the items. After analyzing the difficulty level, there
were 33 items categorized in the easy level, 16 items categorized in the medium
level and 6 items categorized in the difficult level. In terms of the discriminating
power, it was discovered from 55 multiple choice items. There were 26 items
categorized to be accepted, 23 items should be revised, and 6 items should be
discarded. Based on the result above, it can be concluded that the English
Summative Test for the Eleventh Grade Students of SMAN 29 South Jakarta in
the Second Semester of the 2013/2014 Academic Year has not fulfilled the criteria
of a good test.
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