The Reliability of the English Summative Test for The Eleventh Grade Students of SMK Bunga Nusa Jakarta In The Second Semester of The 2012/2013 Academic Year

hembing; eni burhayani, m.pd; matriawati, m.pd;

Muhammad Catur Muliandono. NIM: 0801065106. The Reliability of the English Summative Test for The Eleventh Grade Students of SMK Bunga Nusa Jakarta In The Second Semester of The 2012/2013 Academic Year. Paper: Jakarta: The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA Jakarta, September 2013.
The objective of the study is to get the empirical evidence of the answer to the problem formulation; it is whether the English summative test for the eleventh grade students of SMPK Bunga Nusa in the second semester of the 2012/2013 academic year is reliable or not. The writer used parallel test form technique in estimating the reliability. The first test was administered on December 10th, 2012 and the parallel test was administered on February 3rd, 2012. The length of the time slot between the first and the second test administration due to holiday of the school and can be assured that there is not treatment.
In collecting data, the writer chose the eleventh grade students. The population of the research is the students of SMK Bunga Nusa Jakarta, the number of whom is 100 students and distributed into 3 classes. Each class consist 20-40 students. The writer used XI class consisting 20 students as samples and using purposive cluster sampling technique. However, when the test was administered, 20 students were taking part. The writer used quantitative as a method and implemented Pearson’s Product Moment for analyzing the data.
The research finding is that rt = 0.444 and rh = 5.839, because rh > rt, it means that there is a significant correlation between English Summative test made by the teacher scores and the writer made scores and from the statement above can be said the English Summative Test for Eleventh Grade students of SMK Bunga Nusa Jakarta In The Second Semester of The 2012/2013 Academic Year is reliable.