The Reliability of English Summative Test for the First Semester Students of the Eighth Grade of SMPN 184 Jakarta in 2016/ 2017 Academic Year

dr. roslaini, m.hum.; drs. zuhad ahmad, m.pd.;

DHIAH SA’IDAH. NIM. 1301065044 The Reliability of English Summative Test
for the First Semester Students of the Eighth Grade of SMPN 184 Jakarta in
2016/ 2017 Academic Year. A Paper, Jakarta. The Study Programme of English
Education, The School of the Teachers Training and Education, The University of
Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA. Jakarta, 2017.
The main purpose of this study was to get the empirical evidence for
answering the question of whether or not the English summative test for the
eighth grade students of SMPN 184 Jakarta in the first semester of the 2016/ 2017
academic year has been reliable.
In this study, the writer implemented a field survey mtethod using
correlation technique. The population respondents of this study were the eighth
grade students of SMPN 184 Jakarta. The writer took one class cinsisting of 33
students for the respondent samples of the study. The data which the writer got
from the study has been analyzed through Pearson’s Product Moment Analysis
procedures.
Based on data analysis, it was found that the observed coefficient (ro) =
0.52 and the value of the table of r-distribution, (rt) = 0.349. Because the ro > rt, the Ho was rejected and Hi was accepted. It gave empirical evidence to the writer to make a conclusion that the English summative test for the eighth grade students of SMPN 184 Jakarta Timur in the first semester of the 2016/2017 Academic Yea
has been reliable.