AN ITEM ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SUMMATIVE TEST FOR SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF THE FIRST SEMESTER AT SMPN 10 TANGERANG IN THE 2011/2012 ACADEMIC YEAR

afiyatul janah; ir. suciana wijirahayu, m. pd.;

ILA SOPHIA M. An item analysis of the English summative test for the seventh
grade students of the first semester at SMP Negeri 10 Tangerang in the 2011-
2012 academic year. A paper; Jakarta, FKIP of Muhammadiyah University of
Prof. DR. HAMKA, 2012.
The objectives of this research are to know the index of difficulty and the index of
discriminating power of an item. To full fill the objective of the research, the
writer is necessary to analyze the test items of seventh grade students of SMP
Negeri 10 Tangerang. Based on the theories that the writer studied, the writer tried
to classify, analyze, and conclude the data. Those steps show how good the
English Summative test items for the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 10
Tangerang at 2011/2012 academic year.
The respondents of this research are the students of class VII-4 and VII-5 which
consist of 40 and 40 students. The writer divided the students into two groups.
The writer found 20 respondents for the upper group and 20 respondents for the
lower group. And the writer didn’t use the rest group.
Based on the Difficulty Level formula and the Discriminating Power formula
show that there are 8 (20%) items need to be revised, 32 items from 40 items are
accepted. From that information, it is stated that the English Summative test for
seventh grade students for the second year of SMP Negeri 10 Tangerang is good
enough.