An Item Analysis Of The English Summative Test For The Eighth Grade Students Of SMPN 237 Jakarta In The First Semester Of The 2016-2016 Academic Year.

drs. zuhad ahmad, m.pd; gigih anggana yuda, m.pd;

Anisa Herning. NIM : 1101065010. An Item Analysis of the English Summative Test for the Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 237 Jakarta in the First Semester of the 2015-2016 Academic Year. A Paper, Jakarta, The English Study Program, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2016.

The objective of this research is to find emprical evidence of the difficulty level and discriminating power of English summative test for the eighth grade students of SMPN 237 Jakarta in the first semester of the 2015-2016 academic year.

The methods used in this research are quantitative and qualitative method. Qualitative method is used to find the data of the difficulty level and discriminating power score. Meanwhile, qualitative method is used to describe the quality and the weakness of the items.

The research was held on December 8th, 2015 at SMPN 237 Jakarta of the 2015-2016 Academic Year. The English summative test consisted 50 of multiple choice items. The writer took two classes (8A and 8E) were taken as a sample by purposive sampling. The two classes consist of 72 students. 27% of upper group (20) students and 27% of the lower group (20) students were determined to be the object analysis, while the rest (46%) - the middle group - were left out. In analyzing the difficulty level and discriminating power, the writer used the formula suggested by Heaton to analyze the diffculty level and discriminating power, it is discovered from 50 multiple choice items, there have been 31 items can be accepted, 18 items should be revised, and 1 item are discarded. Based on the result of the difficulty level and the discriminating power, it can be concluded that 36% of the test do not fulfill the criteria as a good quality test. After analyzing the difficulty level, there have been 23 items which are categorized in the easy level, 23 items which categorized in the medium level, and 4 items which categorized is the difficult level.

The writer finds that the English summative test for the eighth students of SMPN 237 Jakarta in the first semester of 2015-2016 academic year can be categorized as not good enough of test in term of the item difficulty and item discrimination.