THE CONTENT VALIDITY OF ENGLISH SUMMATIVE TEST FOR THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MTS. ANNIDA AL-ISLAMY IN THE SECOND SEMESTER OF THE 2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

suhenti; drs. bahrul hasibuan, m. ed.; dra. roslaini, m. hum.;

WULAN NINGSIH. NIM : 0901065324. The Content Validity of English Summative Test for the Eighth Grade Students of MTs. Annida Al–Islamy in the Second Semester of the 2013/2014 Academic Year. A paper. Jakarta : The Study Program of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2014.
The research was done aiming to finding the empirical evidence for the conformity and/or inconformity of the English Summative test with the existing English syllabus of school–based curriculum required for the eighth grade students of MTs. Annida Al–Islamy in the second semester of the 2013/2014 academic year.
The objects of the research are the English summative test paper and the English syllabus of school–based curriculum. The qualitative comparative analysis has been used as the method of this research to find the conformity of the test with the syllabus of school–based curriculum. For this investigation, the writer used a checklist as an instrument to collect data. Then the data is calculated by using simple statistical formula C = T / S x 100% and interpreted used Arikunto’s scheme of conformity level.
The data of the research consists of some suitable contents of the test which indicated the conformity or inconformity of the English summative test with requirement of syllabus of school–based curriculum for the second semester of the eighth grade students of MTs. Annida Al – Islamy. The percentage of the content of English summative test which conform to syllabus requirements of school–based curriculum is 85%. It means that the content validity of the English summative test for the eighth grade students of MTs. Annida Al –Islamy in the second semester of the 2013/2014 academic year has a good of level conformity.