An Item Analysis of the English Summative Test for the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Muhammadiyah 12 Jakarta Timur in the First Semester of 2015/2016 Academic Year.

david, fred r; drs. h. susilo wardoyo, m.pd;

MAYA ALFITASARI. 1201065143. An Item Analysis of the English Summative Test for the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Muhammadiyah 12 Jakarta Timur in the First Semester of 2015/2016 Academic Year. A paper; Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teachers‟ Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, 2016.
The objective of this research was to find out the empirical evidence of the quality of the English summative test for the first semester students of the tenth grade on SMA Muhammadiyah 12 Jakarta Timur in terms of the facility value or difficulty level, the discriminating power, and the effectiveness of distractors. The test was held in SMA Muhammadiyah 12 Jakarta Timur on March 2016. The test of this research consists of 50 multiple choice items. The respondents of this research are 74 students which are divided into 27% of upper group, 46% of medium group and 27% of lower group. In this matter, the writer does not use the medium group, which is about 46% because the item analysis needs only the upper group and lower group as a sample analysis. In analyzing the facility value or difficulty level and the discriminating power, the writer used the formula suggested by Heaton.
The result of the data analysis showed that, from 50 items that 14 items are categorized in the easy level, 34 items are categorized in the medium level and 2 items are categorized in the difficulty level. In terms of the discriminating power, it is discovered from 50 items, there have been 33 items can be accepted, 13 items should be revised, and 4 items is rejected. It could be concluded that the test has not fulfilled the criteria of a good quality.
The benefits of the study result can help teacher to find out if the test can be categorized as a good in terms of difficulty level, discriminating power of the test items and the effectiveness of distractors for make a good test of English Summative test for the first semester of the Tenth Grade Students at SMA Muhammadiyah 12 Jakarta Timur, and that is useful for making good quality of English test item.