An Item Analysis of English Summative Test for the Seventh Grade Students atSMP Negeri 3PasarkemisKabupaten Tangerang on The Second Semester at The 2016-2017 Academic Year

ummu salma al azizah se.i.,m.sc ; yusdi daulay, s.e., m.m; dr. burhayani, m.pd.; nita kaniadewi, m.pd.;

SHINTA DEWI ASTIKA. 1301065156. An Item Analysis of English Summative Test for the Seventh Grade Students atSMP Negeri 3PasarkemisKabupaten Tangerang on The Second Semester at The 2016-2017 Academic Year. A paper. Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education. The School of Teacher Training and Education. The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, 2018.
The objective of the study was to know the quality of the English summative test items for the second semester of the seventh grade students at SMP Negeri 3 Pasar Kemis Kabupaten Tangerang and to identify the test items, which were accepted, needed to be revisedand rejected.The quantitative method was used to analyze the data of the difficulty level and discriminating power. Meanwhile, the qualitative method was used to describe the quality and the weakness of the test items. The number of population respondent ware 320 students which divided into eight classes, but the writer only took the purposive sampling in order to take the sample class to get the sample respondent two classes which consisted of 80students.
Then the writer, ranked the students’score from the highest to the lowest and took 25% of the highest score as the upper group and 25% from the lowest score as the lower group. Each group consistedof 20 students.The sample respondent of this research were 40 students from class 7.E and 7.F in SMP Negeri 3 Pasar Kemis Kabupaten Tangerang on the second semester in 2016/2017 academic year. The instrument that was used in this analysis of the study was the summative test and the answer key.
Based on the analysis of the study, it was concluded that the English summative test items which was administrated at SMP Negeri 3 Pasar Kemis Kabupaten Tangerang was satisfactory becausethere were 10 items or 22% out of 45 items were rejected, 6 items or 14% needed to be revised, and 29 items or 64% were accepted. This research can give the important for the teacher to understand how to make a good test.