The Quality Of English Summative Test Items For The Ninth Grade Students Of SMPN 206 Kembangan West Jakarta In The First Semester 2014-2015 Academic Year

amr mohamed el tiby; hj. eni burhayani, m. pd;

DEA FAUZIA AKHMAD “The Quality Of English Summative Test Items For
The Ninth Grade Students Of SMPN 206 Kembangan West Jakarta In The First
Semester 2014-2015 Academic Year” Paper. Jakarta: Art Education, the School of
Teacher Training and Education. The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR.
HAMKA, August 2015.
The study was held at the ninth grade students on. The objective of the
study is to know the quality of English summative test items at the seventh grade
student on SMPN 206 Kembangan Jakarta Barat in the 2014/2015 Academic Year
seen from the level difficulty, discriminating power and the effectiveness of
distracter.
The method of the study is descriptive quantitative and qualitative
analysis. The quantitative analysis method was used in analyzing data scores to
measure index of item facility value and item discriminating power. Meanwhile,
the qualitative analysis method is used in analyzing data score to detect the item
whether are good or not.
The respondents of this study were 34 students of the ninth grade of
SMPN 206 Kembangan Jakarta Barat in the 2014/2015 Academic Year. The class
is divided into two groups, 25% for upper group and 25% for lower group.
Based on the analysis of the data in this research, the writer estimates that
the English summative test, which was administrated in SMPN 206 Kembangan
Jakarta Barat in the 2014/2015 Academic Year are not good because from 50
items, there are 33 items which are accepted, 5 items are rejected and 12 items
must be revised so it cannot either be used as the model for developing the
English test or reused for the next text.
The problems found from the revised items are many students who are
lack of vocabulary because there is also a sentence or question, answer choices of
words and expressions in the sentences are not easily understood by students.