An Item Analysis on English Summative Test for Second Grade Students of Man Tulungaging 1 in Academic Year 2013/2014

Harir Zumrotul, Masruroh, (2014) An Item Analysis on English Summative Test for Second Grade Students of Man Tulungaging 1 in Academic Year 2013/2014. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Keyword: Item Analysis, Summative test, validity, reliability, Level of difficulty, Discrimination Power, Effectiveness of Distractor Evaluation has an important role in some activities especially in term of education. Evaluation gives information about how successful an effort has been, this information will be very useful to make improvement in the future. One of the instruments of the evaluation in education field is a test. A test is supposed to be well arranged so that it can be used effectively. To be said a good test, it has to fulfill the characteristic of the good test, these are; validity, reliability, practically, level of difficulty, discrimination power and especially for multiple choice test it has effective distractor for each items. To know the quality of test, it should go through an analysis namely item analysis. Item analysis has several benefits. First, it provides useful information for class discussion of test. Second, it provides data for helping the students improve their learning. Third, it provides insights and skills which lead to the preparation of better tests on future occasions. Research problems of this research were: 1) How is the validity of English summative test for second grade students of MAN Tulungagung 1 in academic year 2013/2014? 2) How is the reliability of English Summative test for second grade students of MAN Tulungagung 1 in academic year 2013/2014? 3) How is the level of difficulty of English Summative test for second grade students of MAN Tulungagung 1 in academic year 2013/2014? 4) How is the discriminating power of English Summative test for second grade students of MAN Tulungagung 1 in academic year 2013/2014? 5) How is the effectiveness of each distractor of English Summative test for second grade students of MAN Tulungagung 1 in academic year 2013/2014? The purposes of this research are to describe information about the English Summative test for second grade students of MAN Tulungagung 1 in academic year 2013/2014, which cover: 1)The validity,2)The reliability, 3)The level of difficulty, 4)The discrimination power,5)The effectiveness for each distractor. viii Research methodology applied in this research included 1) Descriptive quantitative method 2) Documentation as both data collecting method and research instrument and the researcher got 70 pieces of answer sheet and analyzed all the items 3) item analysis as method of analyzing data. This research described that the test has some flaws in content validity and construct validity. In term of content validity, not all the language skills were tested in the test, listening was not tested at all. Besides, the materials in syllabus were not fully included in test items. Related to the construct validity, some of techniques used to test language skills were not relevant with the language testing theory especially writing and speaking, because these two skills were tested by using multiple choice test. The test was categorized to have fair reliability, where the test coefficient was 0.677. The level of difficulty range was 70% for easy items, 14% for fair items and 16% for difficult items. It means that the test was too easy for students. For the discrimination power of test , there was 2 % excellent test items, 32 % satisfactory test items, 16 % good test items , 38% poor test items , 12 % Very poor test items . The percentage of effectiveness for each distractor was 28 % for effective distractor, 29% for ineffective distractor and 43% for omit Finally, the researcher suggests teacher or the test maker to consider the aspect affecting to the quality of test in order to set the betterment of the next test. In addition, the suggestions are also given to the future researcher. It will be better if the future researchers analyze the other type of test such as the national examination, SPMB or selection test etc and the future researcher are hoped to analyze item as careful as possible to get the maximal analysis.

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