An Item Analysis of English Summative Test at the Seventh Students on SMPN 121 North Jakarta in the First Semester 2016/2017 Academic Year

h. ahmad subaki, s.e., ak., m.m., ca.; m. nurasyidin, s.e., m.si.; susilo wardoyo, m.pd.; drs. zuhad ahmad, m.pd.;

ILHAM KURNIAWAN. NIM: 1001065100. An Item Analysis of English
Summative Test at the Seventh Students on SMPN 121 North Jakarta in the
First Semester 2016/2017 Academic Year. A paper, Jakarta, The English
Study Programme, The School of Teacher Training and Pedagogy, the
University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2017.
The objective of the study is to find out whether or not the
English summative test at Seventh Seventh Students on SMPN 121 North
Jakarta in the First Semester can be catagorized as a good test based on
the difficulty level, the discriminating power, and the effectiveness of
distracters. The research was conducted at SMPN 121 North Jakarta, on
December 15th 2016.
The test of this research consists of 50 multiple choice items. The
respondents of this research are 72 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.
After analyzing the difficulty level, there have been 23 items which
are catagorized in the easy level, 24 items which are catagorized in the
medium level and 3 items which are catagorized in the difficulty level. In
terms of the discriminating power, it is discovered from 50 multiple choice
items, there have been 40 items can be accepted, 9 items should be revised,
and 1 item should be discarded. And in terms of the effectiveness of
disriminating power, there have been 182 options which are catagorized
in effective to distract, and there have been 18 options which are
catagorized in ineffective to distract.
Based on the result above, it can be concluded that the English
Summative test items at the seventh grade students on SMPN 121 North
Jakarta in the First semester 2016/2017 academic year has not fulfilled the
criteria of a good test.