A Content Validity of the English Summative Test At the Tenth Grade Students on SMAN 54 East Jakarta in the 2015/2016 Academic Year.

yulizar d sanrego; martriwati, m. pd.; nurhandayani s., m.pd;

DINAR TRI NUR INDAH SARI. NIM: 1201065059. A Content Validity
of the English Summative Test At the Tenth Grade Students on SMAN 54 East
Jakarta in the 2015/2016 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 Jakarta,
October, 2016.
The purpose of the research is to find out the empirical evidence whether
the English summative test of the tenth grade students of SMAN 54 East Jakarta
has a good content validity or not. The research method is descriptive comparative
analysis. The result of comparation between the summative test content and the
English syllabus content.The research was started on December, 1st and finished
on 07th 2015. The population are the English summative test consists of the
objective test deals with multiple choices test and essay test. The samples were
multiple choices test. The writer was comparing of the English summative test
content with Senior High School of English Syllabus content 2013 curriculum.
The instruments of the research are checklist tables which arranging based on the
objectives and materials in syllabus 2013 curriculum. It is used to see how many
percentages the test items are studied in terms of their conformity to syllabus. The
research is only focused on reading and writing skill, its multiple choices which
has 50 items. Listening, Speaking are not available in the English summative test.
Therefore, the writer doesn’t discuss those skills.
From the result of this descriptive comparative analysis data. It is proved
by 58,22% of the content of the English summative test which conforms to the
syllabus requirements of the 2013 curriculum. Based on the result, it can be
concluded that the English summative test which is administered in the first
semester, for tenth grade students at SMAN 54 East Jakarta in the 2015/2016
academic year does not reach a good content validity. It reaches at “Bad” level for
content validity criterion. The writer finds out that the English summative test is
not in line with the requirements of the existing syllabus based on 2013
curriculum 2013.
The benefit of the research result is expected to give explanation for the
teachers about the materials of the lesson that learned by students in the tenth
grade students on SMAN 54 Jakarta has fitted based on the syllabus content.
Furthermore, the writer hopes, this study can give meaningful input especially to
the English teacher in arranging and developing English test correctly and exactly.