THE RELIABILITY OF THE ENGLISH SUMMATIVE TEST OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SECOND SEMESTER OF SMPN 192 JAKARTA IN THE 2012/2013 ACADEMIC YEAR

chentika septiana putri; siswana, m. pd.;

DIAN WAHYUNINGSIH. The Reliability of English Summative Test of The Seventh Grade Students of the Second Semester of SMPN 192 Jakarta in the 2012/2013 Academic Year. Paper, Jakarta : The Study Program of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Porf. DR. HAMKA, 2014.
The objective of the study is to find out the empirical evidence of the answer to the problem formulation; it is whether of the English Summative test of the seventh grade students of the second semester of SMPN 192 Jakarta in the 2012/2013 academic year is reliable or not. The writer used parallel test form technique in estimating the reliability. The first test was administered on May 31th, 2013 and the parallel test was administered on June 5th, 2013. The length of the time slot between the first and the second test administration as different as.
In collecting data, the writer chose the seventh grade students of SMPN 192 Jakarta. The population of the research is the students of SMPN 192 Jakarta, the number of whom is 130 students and distributed into 4 classes. Each class consists 32-35 students. The writer used VII2 class consisting 35 students as samples and using purposive cluster sampling technique. However, when the test was administered, only 32 students were talking part. The writer used quantitative as a method and implemented Pearson’s Product Moment for analyzing the data
After analyzing the data, the writer got ro= 0.59 and rt= 0.361 because ro>rt, it means that there is a significant correlation between English summative test of the seventh grade students of the second semester of SMPN 192 Jakarta in the 2012/2013 academic year and the parallel test. From the result above it can be said that the English summative test of the seventh grade students of the second semester of SMPN 192 Jakarta in the 2012/2013 academic year is reliable.