An Item Analysis of English Summative Test of the Eleventh Grade Student of SMK Negeri 17 Jakarta in 2015/2016 Academic Year

brooks, leonard j; nita kaniadewi, m.pd;

DIAN PUSPITASARI. An Item Analysis of English Summative Test of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMKN 17 Jakarta 2015/2016 Academic Year. Paper. Jakarta: The Study Program of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, 2016.
The purpose of this study is to answer the question of the study whether or not the English Summative Test for the Eleventh Grade Students of SMKN 17 Jakarta in the 2014/2015 Academic Year can be categorized as a good test in term of the facility value (difficulty level), the discriminating power, and the effectiveness of distracters. This study was conducted in SMKN 17 Jakarta, on 22nd April 2016. The test of this study consisted of 25 multiple choice items. The respondents of this study were 65 students divided into 25% of the upper group, 50% of the medium group, and 25% of the lower group. In this case the writer did not use the medium group, for the item analysis only use the upper and the lower group as a sample. The writer used J. B. Heaton formula as a reference to analyze the facility value (difficulty level) and the discriminating power. Based on the calculation of the facility value, there were 21 items categorized into easy items, 4 items categorized medium items, and none categorized as difficult item. In term of the discriminating power result, there were 15 good items accepted, 7 weak items should be revised, and 3 bad items should be rejected. In conclusion, the English Summative Test for the Eleventh Grade Students of SMKN 17 Jakarta in the 2015/2016 Academic Year has not fulfilled the criteria of good test.