AN ITEM ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SUMMATIVE TEST FOR THE SECOND SEMESTER OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT MTs NEGERI 32 SOUTH JAKARTA IN THE 2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

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NURLAILATUL BADRIYAH. An Item Analysis of the English Summative Test for the Second Semester of the Seventh Grade Students at MTsN 32 South Jakarta in the 2013/2014 academic year. Paper, the Study Program of English Education. The Department Language and Arts Education. The School of Teacher‟s Training and Education. The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka. Jakarta 2014.
This research was conducted to find out whether the English Summative test for the Second Semester of the Seventh Grade Students at MTsN 32 South Jakarta in the 2013/2014 academic year has a good quality of facility value, discriminating power, and the effectiveness of distracter.
The English summative test consists of 60 multiple choice items and 4 options. The total respondents of this research were 83 students from 2 classes. Thus, the respondents were divided into 2 groups: 25% or 21 respondents from the upper group and 25% or 21 respondents from the lower group.
The technique of data analysis of this research was done by presenting the data in form of the tables and analyzing the items to get the facility value (FV), the discriminating power (DP), and the effectiveness of distracter.
Based on the data analysis of this research, it showed that there are 17 items which must be revised out of 60 items. Therefore, it is stated that English summative test for the second semester of the seventh grade students at MTsN 32 South Jakarta was categorized as a good test.