An Item Analysis of the English Summative Test at the Tenth Grade Students of the First Semester On SMKN 20 Jakarta In the 2015/2016 Academic Year.

betsis, andrew; drs. sigit sumarsono, m.pd.; fidaniar tiarsiwi, m.pd;

SYIFA KAMALIA, 1201065237. An Item Analysis of the English Summative Test at the Tenth Grade Students of the First Semester On SMKN 20 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, 2016.
The purpose of the study is to answer the question of the study whether or not the English summative test at SMKN 20 Jakarta 2015/2016 academic year has good quality of the test in terms of difficulty level and discriminating power. The writer used a quantitative and qualitative method in this study. Quantitative method was used as numeric method to get the measures of the difficulty level and discriminating power. Meanwhile, qualitative method was used in this research to describe the meaning of the weak items to see the causes for making the revision. The respondents of this study were the tenth graders of SMKN 20 Jakarta. To get the data, the writer used a random sampling to get the respondents and took the students from class X-PM1 and X-PM2 which consisted of 61 students. The writer divided into two groups: 27% upper and 27% lower groups.
After analyzing the item, the result of the test item based on difficulty level: there are 23.4% items categorized as very easy, 23.4% items categorized easy, 42.6% items moderate, 2.1% items difficult, and 8.5% items very difficult. Besides the difficulty level, based on the discriminating power there are: 17% bad items that should be discarded, 17% poor items that should be revised, 25.5% satisfactory items, 31.9% good items, and 8.5% excellent items that are maintained.
The writer concludes that the English Summative test of the tenth grade and could be classified as good quality items. The teacher can save the test as a model of a good test and use the test in the future.