An Item Analysis of The English Summative Test of The Eight Grade Students of SMP Bakti Idhata Jakarta on The Second Semester In The 2015/2016 Academic Year

dra. roslaini, m.hum.; drs. h. susilo wardoyo, m.pd.;

R. FARADIBA KANSERISKI. 1201065196. An Item Analysis of the English Summative Test of the Eight Grade Students of SMP Bakti Idhata Jakarta on the Second Semester in the 2015/2016 Academic Year. A Paper, the Study Programme of English Language Teaching Programme, The School of Teaching Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka. 2016.
The objective of this study is to find out out whether the English summative test items for the eight grade students on SMP Bakti Idhata Jakarta has good quality or not in terms of the facility value or difficulty level, discriminating power, and the effectiveness of distractor. The test was held in SMP Bakti Idhata Jakarta on October 27th 2015.
The test of this study consist of 50 multiple choice items. The respondents of this research are 44 students which are divided into 12 students of upper group, 20 students of medium group and 12 students of lower group. In this matter the writer does not use the medium group because the item analysis only needs the upper group and lower group as a sample analysis. In analyzing the difficulty level and discriminating power, the writer used the formula suggested by J.B Heaton to analyze the difficulty level and discriminating power.
The result of the data analysis showed that from 50 items. There have been 22 items which are categorized in the easy level, 25 items which are categorized in the medium level, and 3 items which are categorized in the difficulty level. Based on the result of the difficulty level and discriminating power, it can be concluded that the test have not fulfilled the criteria of a good quality. The benefits of the study result are can help teacher to find out if the test can be categorized as a good test in terms of difficulty level, the discriminating power of the test items and the effectiveness of distractor for make a good test of English Summative test for the second semester of Eight Grade student at SMP Bakti Idhata Jakarta. And that is useful for making good quality of English test item for the next Summative Test.