THE RELIABILITY OF ENGLISH SUMMATIVE TEST FOR THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 258 JAKARTA IN THE 2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

arief ardiansyah; martriwati, m. pd.; tri setyaningsih, m. pd.;

DEWI HABIBAH ARRIYANI. 1001065047. The Reliability of English Summative Test for the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 258 Jakarta in the 2013/2014 Academic Year. A Paper, Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, 2014.
The objective of this study is to get empirical evidence of whether or not the English summative test for the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 258 Jakarta in the 2013/2014 academic year is reliable.
In this research, the writer chooses the eighth grade students of SMPN 258 Jakarta as population. There are 319 students and distributed into eight classes. Each class contains 35-40 students. The writer chose class 8-3 which consists of 36 students as sample. In taking this sample, the writer used the random cluster sampling technique. The method of this research is quantitative survey correlation which involves the correlation analysis between eighth grade students‟ scores of English summative test and the scores of English parallel test. The writer analyzed the data by using Pearson‟s Product Moment Formula.
The result of correlation coefficient calculation by using Pearson‟s Product Moment Formula is ro = 0.52 and rt = 0.349. Since ro is bigger than rt, it means that there is significant correlation between English summative test scores made by the standardized team and parallel test scores made by the writer. It can be concluded that the English summative test for the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 258 Jakarta in the 2013/2014 academic year is reliable.