An Item Analysis of English Summative Test at the Second Semester for the Seventh Grade Students on SMP Darul Muttaqien Jakarta in the 2014/2015 Academic Year

stockhammer, engelbert; dr. tri wintolo apoko, m. pd; drs. susilo wardoyo, m. pd;

APRIYANTI. 1001065022. An Item Analysis of English Summative Test for the
Seventh Grade in the Second Semester at SMP Darul Muttaqien Jakarta Barat in
2014 / 2015 Academic Years. A paper, the English Language Teaching Program,
the Department of Language and Arts Education, the School of Teacher Training
and Education, the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, Jakarta
2015.
The objective of this research is to find out whether or not the English
summative test for the second semester students of the seventh grade of SMP
Darul Muttaqien Jakarta Barat can be categorized as a good test based on
difficulty level, the discriminating power and the effectiveness of distracters. The
research was conducted at SMP Darul Muttaqien Jakarta Barat, on June.
The test of this research consists of 50 multiple choice items. The
respondents of this research are 46 students which are divided into 27% of upper,
46% medium 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 the lower group as a sample analysis. In analyzing the difficulty
level and discriminating power, and the effectiveness of option, the writer used
the formula suggested by Heaton to analyze the difficulty level, the discriminating
power and the effectiveness of option.
After analyzing the difficulty level, there have been 1item which is
categorized in the difficult level, 39 items which are categorized in the medium
level, and 10 items which are categorized in the easy level. Discriminating power,
it is discovered from 50 multiple choice items, there have been 7 items can be
rejected, 8 items should be revised and 35 items are accepted. In term the
effectiveness of option, there have been 78 items which are categorized in the
effective, 37 items which are categorized in the ineffective and 35 items which are
categorized in the less effective. Based on the results of the difficulty level,
discriminating power and the effectiveness of option, it can be concluded that the
test fulfills the criteria of a good test. Principally, this analysis has two
significances to give information to the teacher / test maker how to make a good
test item, especially on English test and to give new ideas to the reader to
construct good test.