An Item Analysis of the English Summative Test for the Eleventh Grade Students of SMAN 74 Jakarta in the First Semester 2015/2016 Academic Year.

aceng rachmat; drs. h. bahrul hasibuan, m.ed; nurhandayani s., m.pd;

FISKA NOVIOLA. 1101065037. An Item Analysis of the English Summative Test for the Eleventh Grade Students of SMAN 74 Jakarta in the First Semester 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, 2016.
The objectives of the research are to find out the empirical evidence of the quality of the test items in terms of the facility value and the discriminating power. The method used in this research can be categorized into descriptive quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative method is used to analyze data of the difficulty level and discriminating power. Meanwhile, qualitative method is used to describe the quality of the test items.
The respondent of this study were the eleventh grade students of SMAN 74 Jakarta. The writer only took 71 respondents of the eleventh grade students as a sample of respondents from two classes. Then the writer ranked the students from the highest to the lowest score, and took 25% from the highest score as the upper group and 25% from the lowest score as the lower group. Each group consists of 18 respondents.
From the result of the item analysis in term of discriminating power, the writer has got the data that there have been 18 test items or 45% that did not have good quality; they were 3 items (7,5%) categorized as very poor items that need to be rejected, and 15 items (37,5%) categorized as poor items that need revision. However, the quality of 22 items or 65% (satisfactory (14 items), good (7 items), and excellent (1item) are good because the test items can be accepted. The writer concludes that the English summative test for the eleventh grade students of SMAN 74 Jakarta in the first semester of the 2015/2016 academic year in general has good quality.