An Item Analysis of English Summative Test for The Tenth Grade Students of SMKN 57 South Jakarta in the First Semester 2016/2017 Academic Year

tieger kelly; siswana, m.pd.; heni novitasari, m.pd.;

FITRI ZHAFIRAH ADAWIYAH. NIM: 1201065087. An Item Analysis of
English Summative Test for The Tenth Grade Students of SMKN 57 South
Jakarta in the First Semester 2016/2017 Academic Year. A paper: The Study
Programme of English Education, The School of Teachers’ Training and
Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, 2017.
The objective of this study was to know whether the English summative
test items for the first semester of the tenth grade students at SMKN 57 Jakarta in
the 2016/2017 academic year had a good quality in term of difficulty level,
discriminating power, and the effectiveness of distracters. The test was held in
SMKN 57 South Jakarta in Mei 2017. The test of this study consisted of 50
multiple choice items. The respondents of this study from UPW 1 and UPW 2
class were 60 students divided into 27% upper group, 46% of medium group, and
27% of lower group. In this matter, the item analysis needs only the upper and
lower group as a sample analysis.
The result of the data analysis showed that, there were 16 easy items (32%),
29 medium items (58%) and 5 difficult items (10%). In terms of discriminating
power, there were 40 accepted items (80%), 8 revised items (16%), and 2 rejected
items (4%). In term of the effectiveness of distracters, there were 124 effective
distracters (62%), 30 less effective distracters (15%), 46 ineffective distracters
(23%). It can be concluded that the English summative test for the tenth grade
students of SMKN 57 South Jakarta of 2016/2017 academic year has a good
quality in term of difficulty level, discriminating power, and the effectiveness of
distracters.
The benefits of the study can help teacher to find out if the test can be
categorized as a good in terms of difficulty level, discriminating power of the test
items and the effectiveness of distractors for making a good test of English
summative test.