An Item Analysis Of The English Summative Test For The Seventh Grade Students of SMP Negeri 24 Bekasi, West Java In The Second Semester in 2013/2014 Academic Years

ety rochaety, se., mm.; sunarto suwito, se., mm.; drs. zuhad ahmad, m.pd;

SITI WIJAYANTI MAHMOED. NIM: 1001067017. An Item Analysis Of The
English Summative Test For The Seventh Grade Students of SMP Negeri 24
Bekasi, West Java In The Second Semester in 2013/2014 Academic Years. A paper.
Jakarta: The School Of Teacher Training And Education, The University of
Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2014.
The objective of research is to find out whether the English summative test
of the second semester for the seventh grade that administered at SMP Negeri 24
Bekasi, 2013/2014 academic year which held on 9 June 2014, can be categorized
as a good test based on the difficulty level and the discriminating power.
The research was conducted at SMP Negeri 24 Bekasi, on June 9th – June
14th, 2014. The test of this research consists of 50 multiple choice items. The
respondents of this research are 40 students which are separated into 25% of upper
group, 50% of medium group and 25% of lower group. In this circumstances, the
writer does not use the medium group, which is about 50% because the item
analysis needs only the upper group and the lower group.
The writer used the formula suggested by Heaton in analyzing the difficulty
level and the discriminating power. After analyzing the Difficulty level, the writer
found there are 33 items which categorized in easy level, 15 items which
categorized in medium level, and 2 items which categorized in difficult level. In
the Discriminating Power, there have been 21 items can be accepted, 19 items
should be revised, and 2 items is discarded. Referring to the result of the difficulty
level and the discriminating power, it can be concluded that the test fulfills the
criteria of a good test.