An Item Analysis of English Summative Test For Tenth Grade Students of SMKN 6 South Jakarta In The First Semester in 2015/2016 Academic Year

drs. h. susilo wardoyo, m.pd;

AHMAD MUSTHOFA ALBANY. Nim: 1201065007. An Item Analysis of English Summative Test For Tenth Grade Students of SMKN 6 South Jakarta In The First Semester in 2015/2016 Academic Year. A paper, Jakarta, The English Study Programme the School of Teaching Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2016.
The objective of this research was to get the factual data of the English summative test for tenth grade students of SMKN 6 south Jakarta in first semester in 2015/2016 academic year made by MGMP in terms of the facility value, discriminating power and the effectiveness of distracters. The writer used a quantitative and qualitative method in this study. Quantitative method was used as a numeric method to get the measures of difficulty level, discriminating power and the effectiveness of distracter. Meanwhile, qualitative method was used to describe the meaning of the weak items to see the causes for making the revision.
The test of this research consist 50 multiple choice items. The respondent of this research are 60 students which are divide into 3 groups there are upper group, medium group and lower group. The writer does not use the medium group because the item analysis needs only upper and lower group as a sample analysis. Based on the data analysis of the research, the tabulation of facility value shows: 11 items in the test or (22%) are classified as the easy items, 26 items or (52%) are classified as the medium items and 13 items or (26%) are classified as the difficult items. In the tabulation of discriminating power shows: 11 items or (22%) are classified as bad items and need to be discarded, 3 items or (6%) are classified as the poor items and need to be revised and 36 items or (72%) are classified as the good items and need to be accepted. In the tabulation of the effectiveness of distracter shows: there are 24 ineffective distracter in the test or (16%), there are 47 less effective distracter in the test or (31%) and there are 79 effective distracter in the test or (53%).
From the findings of the research, the writer concludes that the English summative test for the tenth grade students of SMKN 6 South Jakarta in the first semester of the 2015/2016academic year has good quality. The benefits of this research are can help the teacher to find out the quality of good test in terms of difficulty level, discriminating power and the effectiveness of distracter for make a good test.