An Item Analysis of English Summative Test for the First Semester at the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Negeri 257 East Jakarta in 2016/2017 Academic Year

ahmad subaki, s.e., m.m., ak., ca., cpa. ; kurniawan, s.e., m.m.; dr. roslaini, m.hum; drs. h. susilo wardoyo, m.pd.;

FITRIANITA. 1201065090. An Item Analysis of English Summative Test for the First Semester at the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Negeri 257 East Jakarta in 2016/2017 Academic Year. A Paper: Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teachers Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, 2017.
The objective of the research was to determine the quality of the English summative test items, especially at the seventh grade of the first semester of SMP Negeri 257 East Jakarta and to identify the test item which needs to be accepted, revised, or rejected. The test was held in SMP Negeri 257 East Jakarta on November 2016. The test of this research consists of 50 multiple choice items. The respondents of this research are 70 students which are divided into 27% of upper group, 46% of medium group 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 lower group as a sample analysis. In analyzing the facility value or difficulty level and the discriminating power, the writer used the formula suggested by Heaton.
The result of the data analysis showed that, from 50 items that 25 items are categorized in the easy level, 20 items are categorized in the medium level and 5 items are categorized in the difficulty level. In terms of the discriminating power, it is discovered from 50 items, there have been 34 items can be accepted, 9 items should be revised, and 7 items is rejected. It could be concluded that the test fulfilled the criteria of a good quality.
The benefits of the study result 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 make a good test of English Summative test for the first semester of the Seventh Grade Students at SMP Negeri 257 East Jakarta, and that is useful for making good quality of English test item.