An Item Analysis of the English Summative Test for the Seventh Grade Students at SMPN 237 Jakarta on the First Semester in 2015/2016 Academic Year.

dreher, axel ; lohmann, steffen; dra. roslaini, m.hum.; gigih anggana yuda, m.pd;

NURMALA SARI, 1101065066, An Item Analysis of the English Summative Test for the Seventh Grade Students at SMPN 237 Jakarta on the First Semester in 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 know the quality of the English summative test for the seventh grade students at SMPN 237 Jakarta based on the quality of the items and to identify the test items which are to be accepted, revised, and rejected.
The method used in this research is a qualitative analysis. Qualitative analysis is used in analyzing the meaning of data scores in order to describe the quality and weakness whether the test items are good or bad. Additionally, it can be decided which items to be accepted, revised, or discarded according to the result of the item analysis.
The sampling of this research is the seventh grade students of SMPN 237 Jakarta. The writer only took 72 students which are devided into 2 classes. Then, the writer ranked the students from the highest to the lowest score, and took 27% the highest score as the upper group and 27% from the lowest score as the lower group. Each group consists of 20 students.
Based on the analysis of this research, the English summative test which are administered at SMPN 237 Jakarta is not good because from 50 items, there are 25 items can be accepted, 12 items that must be revised, and 13 items that must be rejected.